How genetic testing can save the dingos: Kylie Cairns

Dr Kylie Cairns is a population geneticist and runs the Dingo Genetics Research program. Her aim is to gather more genetic information from Dingos in order to protect them and break with the perception of dingos as feral wild dogs. In this episode, she explains her position in a decades-long and heated scientific debate about the identity of Australia's land-based apex predator. Kylie shares why she feels it is crucial to protect these animals, which have been introduced to this continent more than 4000 years ago. This episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Ben Kanthak (Podcast Producer at Australian Geographic) and produced by You can also

You can listen to How genetic testing can save the dingos: Kylie Cairns online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

How genetic testing can save the dingos: Kylie Cairns is an episode from Talking Australia by Jay Walkerden.

This episode is 32:22 long.

This episode was published on Dec 21, 2021.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Talking Australia when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.