Insects for breakfast and whales for dinner: the diet and body condition of dingoes on Fraser Island (K’gari)

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Behrendorff, Linda, Leung, Luke K.-P., McKinnon, Allan, Hanger, Jon, Belonje, Grant, Tapply, Jenna, Jones, Darryl, Allen, Benjamin L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
• Subjects: Article; Fraser Island; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806299/; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23469

Top-predators play stabilising roles in island food webs, including Fraser Island, Australia. Subsidising generalist predators with human-sourced food could disrupt this balance, but has been proposed to improve the overall health of the island’s dingo (Canis lupus dingo) population, which is allege...