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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Eden Gillespie and Andrew Messenger

Tourists taking selfies and feeding dingoes blamed for rise in K’gari attacks

A dingo on K'gari.
Rangers are worried the K’gari dingoes are no longer scared of humans and tourist behaviour is escalating their aggression. Photograph: Mike OConnor/Getty Images

Keith Sinclair spent much of his childhood zigzagging around K’gari in a Studebaker truck with his dad, on a constant lookout for dingoes.

As they were notoriously shy and skittish towards humans, often the closest he’d get would be discovering faint traces of their paw prints in the sand near his campsite. By the next day, the wind would blow the tracks away, as if the animals were never really there to begin with.

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