MELBOURNE. A two-year-old boy was rushed by helicopter to hospital in Australia with bites to the head and all over his body: a dingo attacked him in a popular holiday resort, Fraser Island. “He was playing outside the house when a neighbor luckily heard the moans giving the alarm,” authorities explained.
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The dingo on Fraser Island is a protected species and has become something of a tourist attraction. About 200 are estimated to exist, according to the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
In 1980 a little girl, Azaria Chamberlain, disappeared from a tent in the Australian outback, not far from Uluru. The child’s body was never found, creating a mystery that has long divided the country between those who accused the parents of the child’s death and disappearance and those who believed the couple’s version of a dingo who entered the tent.
Uluru, after the torrential rains spectacular waterfalls from the sacred monolith to the aborigines
Aazaria Lindy’s mother served three years in prison because she was accused of the infanticide that according to the accusation was carried out for ritual reasons. The discovery of a bloody swaddle cover in the desert in a place compatible with the version of the parents allowed her to get out of prison.
The story was told in a book and brought to the screen by Meryl Streep as Lindy.
Dingoes were introduced to Australia about 4,000 years ago and are protected in the state of Queensland. They occupy a particular role in Aboriginal religion. In other states they are considered a pest species.
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