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Dingoes have gotten bigger over the last 80 years – and pesticides might be to blame – EurekAlert
The average size of a dingo is increasing, but only in areas where poison-baits are used, a collaborative study led by UNSW Sydney shows.
IMAGE: A growth spurt: dingoes have been getting bigger since the introduction of 1080 poison baiting.
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Credit: Peter Contos
Dingoes have gotten around 6-9 per cent bigger over the past 80 years, new research from UNSW and the University of Sydney shows – but the growth is only happening in areas where poison baiting is used.
The findings, published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society over the weekend, compared the sizes of dingoes that lived in three baited regions …
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