[Science] Australia’s dingoes may keep feral cats in check and protect wildlife – AI

Wildlife protectors?Julie Fletcher/Getty By Ruby Prosser Scully ​Dingoes are cunning predators and no friend to Australian sheep farmers, but they could play a pivotal role in suppressing the number of feral cats that devastate the country’s wildlife. You can find feral cats in just about every part of Australia. They have contributed to the extinction of 20 native mammals and threatened many more. As such, they are seen as a pest by many people. Dingoes are a pest too, in the eyes of many sheep farmers. They arrived in Australia between 5000 and 10,000 years ago and quickly …