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The death of Azaria Chamberlain was, and continues to be, much publicised. There have been a number of deaths attributed to wild dogs. The problem is not limited to stock either. This is a real problem for graziers and farmers who are suffering increasing losses of stock to a growing wild dog population. The warm and fuzzy set, impervious as always to scientific reality, consider dingoes a native animal and are pushing for federal protection. Partly in response to that pressure and also due to funding problems, many state governments and shires have ceased funding wild dog control. The aboriginal people that migrated down from Asia during an epoch of much lower sea levels, starting about 50,000 years ago, brought dingos and dogs with them. Wild dogs were introduced to Australia in the (geologically) recent past.