Australia: Dingo Attacks Tourist on Fraser Island

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | January 26th, 2011 | Trackback

Queensland’s Fraser island, the world’s largest sand island and a World Heritage Site listed alongside Australia’s Uluru, Kakadu National Park and Great Barrier Reef, is a popular place for camping and for seeing dingoes in their natural habitat. But often tourists and dingoes don’t mix well. In a recent incident, five dingoes surrounded a tourist and one attacked her, biting her several times on the arms and legs. She was treated on the scene and didn’t need hospital care. Such attacks happen periodically and usually are blamed on tourists’ tendency to feed the animals—despite ample warnings not to do so—which makes them more comfortable approaching humans and more aggressive.

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