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DINGO,—Canis Dingo. 
that all the bones had been broken, and it was left for dead.” After its supposed slayer 
had walked away from the apparently lifeless carcass, he was surprised to see the slain 
animal arise, shake itself, and slink away into the bush. Another apparently dead Dingo 
had been brought into the hut for the purpose of being skinned, and had actually suffered 
the operator to remove the skin from one side of its face before it permitted any symptoms 
of life or sensation to escape it. 
My. Bennett further remarks, that this marvellous vitality of the Dingo accounts for 
the fact that the skeletons of these animals are not found in the places where they have 
been reported to he dead. For, although the carrion-devouring beasts and birds will soon 
carry away every particle of the flesh of a dead animal, they always leave its larger bones 
as memorials of their ghoul-like repast. There are many similar accounts of the Dingo, 
and its fast hold of life. 
As a general fact, the Dingo is not of a pugnacious character, and would at any time 
rather run away than fight. But when it is hard pressed by its foes, and finds that its 
legs are of no use, it turns to bay with savage ferocity, and dashes at its opponents with 
the furious energy of despair. It carries these uncivilized customs into domesticated life, 
and even when its restless limbs are subjected to the torpefying thraldom of chain and 
collar, and its wild, wolfish nature allayed by regular meals and restricted exercise, it is 
ever ready to make a sudden and unprovoked attack upon man or beast, provided always 
that its treacherous onset can be made unseen. After the attack, it always retreats into 
the farthest recesses of its habitation, and there crouches in fear and silence, whether it 
has failed or succeeded in its cowardly malice. 
