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Book Review of Facts About the Dingo (A Picture Book For Kids)

Facts About the Dingo (A Picture Book For Kids)
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The dingo is Australia's wild dog, originally from Southeast Asia around 3000 to 4000 years ago. Probably the most important fact I learned from this book is that the dingo's dietary choices help regenerate fragile native flora and animals. They can run 37 MPH.

Our family was in Australia during the hubbub about the dingo that killed a baby at Ayers Rock. At the time we were there, the mother had been convicted of killing her child and blaming it on a dingo. However, 32 years later, the (now) divorced couple is still fighting to label their daughter's death due to a dingo. This is the most controversial case in Australian legal history.