Dingoes play an important role in Australia's ecosystems ; they are apex predators and the continent's largest terrestrial predator.

Dingoes are quite abundant in large parts of Australia, and yet some argue that they are endangered due to interbreeding with other dogs in many parts of their range.

Dingoes from the North and the North-West of Australia are larger than Central and South-Australian populations.

Dingoes are a wild true dogs that will interbreed with dogs of other origins, thus leading to the proliferation of dingo hybrids and the possibility of the extinction of pure wild dingoes.

Dr. Alan Wilton and his co-researchers have proven Singers are genetically matched to Australian Dingoes.

Dingoes are distinguishable from domestic dogs through DNA and through having longer teeth and longer muzzles.

Many city and suburban pubs gained renown for their support of live music, and many prominent Australian bands — including AC / DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels and The Dingoes — cut their teeth at these venues in the early days of their careers.

The Dingoes debut single, " Way Out West ", was released in November 1973, which peaked in the top 40 of the Australian Kent Music Report singles chart.

On 27 August 2009, The Dingoes were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, Little Pattie, Mental As Anything and John Paul Young.

The Dingoes combined R & B, country and rock ' n ' roll with songs that used Australian themes and imagery.

Early in 1975, after appearing at the fourth Sunbury Pop Festival, The Dingoes received a phone call from expatriate Australian roadie Billy McCartney, who had seen them when visiting from the United States, where he had established himself as a tour manager for Elvis Presley and Rod Stewart.

On 27 August 2009, The Dingoes were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, Little Pattie, Mental As Anything and John Paul Young.

In October 2010, their debut album, The Dingoes ( 1974 ) was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.

It was also a critical breakthrough and along with a handful of other 1970s ' Australian classics, like The Dingoes ' debut LP and Madder Lake's Stillpoint, it remains one of the most original and accomplished Australasian debut albums of the period.

* John Lee ( ex The Dingoes ) – wrote and recorded with the Australian drummer and songwriter.

On 27 August 2009, Little Pattie was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, The Dingoes, Mental As Anything and John Paul Young.

On 27 August 2009, Little Pattie was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, The Dingoes, Mental As Anything and John Paul Young.

On 27 August 2009, Mental As Anything was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, The Dingoes, Little Pattie and John Paul Young.

On 27 August 2009, Mental As Anything was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) Hall of Fame alongside Kev Carmody, The Dingoes, Little Pattie and John Paul Young.

In its first few years Mushroom released albums and singles by some of the most significant Australian rock acts of the period, including Madder Lake, MacKenzie Theory, Matt Taylor and The Dingoes.

A single lifted from the album, " All Fired Up " ( written by Kerryn Tolhurst, ex-The Dingoes ) reached # 19 in both the US and the UK, and was a # 2 smash in Australia, becoming one of the biggest hits of 1988 in that country.

Oz plays guitar in a rock band named Dingoes Ate My Baby.

* Daniel " Oz " Osbourne — Willow's boyfriend throughout Seasons Two to Four, Oz is a werewolf and the guitarist for local band Dingoes Ate My Baby.

He is also the lead guitarist for the band Dingoes Ate My Baby, which performs frequently at The Bronze.

Returning to the US, McCartney recommended the band to Peter Rudge, who was then tour manager for The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and, after ten months negotiations, Rudge agreed to manage The Dingoes in the US.

Throughout the first four seasons of the series, Four Star Mary were the real band behind character Oz's fictional band, Dingoes Ate My Baby.

That the Bronze plays live music is not only used as a plot device for Oz's band Dingoes Ate My Baby but also as a subtle means for the production team to showcase new bands from the Los Angeles area, as well as more well-known artists and bands such as Aimee Mann, Splendid, Cibo Matto, Angie Hart, Michelle Branch, K's Choice, Garbage and Nerf Herder.

Dingoes Ate My Baby ( playing the music of the real-life band Four Star Mary ) appears at the Bronze more than any other band.

This is also the first appearance of Oz and Devon ’ s band, Dingoes Ate My Baby.

* When Willow moves into Buffy's dorm room, she hangs a poster of Dingoes Ate My Baby, Oz's band, in the same spot that Kathy's poster of Celine Dion once was.

Four Star Mary gained recognition after appearing in several episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, providing the music for the fictional band Dingoes Ate My Baby, of whom the character Oz was the lead guitarist.

Dingoes have maintained ancient characteristics that unite them, along with their closest relatives from Southeast Asia and the Pacific, into a taxon named after them, Canis lupus dingo, which separate them from dogs classified as Canis lupus familiaris.

The Dingoes signed a two-album deal with US-based, A & M records, on recommendations from McCartney and Rudge, and undertook three months of rehearsals in Canada, then headed for the US, where they set up base in Mill Valley, Northern California, at the start of 1977.

The tracks ranged from the bluesy " What Else is a Life " ( which was released as the first single ), the country-inflected " This Old Town ", to the politicised " Song for East Timor ", as well as a cover of the Tolhurst-penned, The Dingoes track " Your Song ".

Dr. Alan Wilton, a geneticist and senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Australia, has theorized that all of the Singing Dogs of New Guinea as well as the Dingoes in Australia may have sprung from a single pregnant female.

The Dingoes with John Lee on drums, Broderick Smith on lead vocals and harmonica, Chris Stockley on lead guitar, John Strangio on bass guitar and Kerryn Tolhurst on guitar and mandolin, were formed in Melbourne in April 1973.

* " Way Out West ", a 1973 song by The Dingoes, which was notably covered by James Blundell and James Reyne as a duet, in 1992

They had three top 40 albums, The Dingoes in 1974, Fives Times the Sun in 1977 and Orphans of the Storm in 1979.

Orphans Of The Storm was released in February 1979, along with a final single, " Into the Night ", but by this time Smith had returned to Australia and The Dingoes had split.

There was even formed a separate youth culture in Finland, the Dingoes.

The Dingoes was released in June 1974, along with a second single " Boy on the Run ", co-written by Stockley and Smith, which peaked at # 24 in Melbourne but did not break into the top 50 nationally.