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Ooo cool .. Doyoung singing prettily on Dingo Music. I really like what I've managed to listen to of his new album.

도영 (DOYOUNG)의 킬링보이스를 라이브로! – 반딧불, 새봄의 노래, 안녕, 우주, BOSS, Baggy Jeans, 미래에서 기다릴게 | 딩고뮤직 | Dingo Music
youtube.com/watch?v=JMehW4VKBl

Trickster encounters, good or bad, detach us from familiar, often fossilized, socially sanctioned norms. These norms provide a useful service, preserving what ‘is’. But they may also shackle us to a version of the world that no longer exists: a world that has changed while we were ‘busy making other plans.’

Hi there! My name is Undevo, and I'm a digital furry artist with a dingo fursona. :blobfoxwave:

I am nonbinary and asexual, and I use they/them pronouns.

Aside from drawing art digitally, I also love 3D modeling, and over time I've also been experimenting with various kinds of physical and analog art. I love listening to music (especially techno/electronica, nu metal, and indie rock), collecting all kinds of physical media, such as movies and music albums, and meeting fellow furs!

On the software side, I mostly use Krita for drawing and Blender for 3D modeling, as well as a few other programs (such as Drawpile, Inkscape, and OBS) for specific purposes.

I'm rather shy but also friendly, so if you'd like to talk about anything, feel free to contact me on any of the platforms listed under my bio, or alternatively here, with a direct message.

The artwork you can see attached to this post is a drawing of my fursona, specifically the first furry artwork I ever completed, and I'm still very proud of it!

Genomic consequences of isolation and inbreeding in an island #dingo population biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

bioRxivGenomic consequences of isolation and inbreeding in an island dingo populationDingoes come from an ancient canid lineage that originated in East Asia around 8000-11,000 years BP. As Australia's largest terrestrial predator, dingoes play an important ecological role. A small population exists on a world heritage listed offshore island, K'gari (formerly Fraser Island). While dingoes on K'gari are protected, dingoes on the mainland are only protected in certain regions, and, because of its controversial status in Australia, lethal control is commonly used for management. Concern regarding the persistence of dingoes on K'gari has risen due to their low genetic diversity and elevated inbreeding levels. However, whole-genome sequencing data is lacking from this population. Here, we include five new whole-genome sequences of K'gari dingoes. We analyze a total of 18 whole genome sequences of dingoes sampled from mainland Australia and K'gari to assess the genomic consequences of their demographic histories. Long (>1 Mb) runs of homozygosity (ROH) \---| indicators of inbreeding \---| are elevated in all sampled dingoes. However, K'gari dingoes showed significantly higher levels of very long ROH (>5 Mb), providing genomic evidence for small population size, isolation, inbreeding, and a strong founder effect. Our results suggest that, despite current levels of inbreeding, the K'gari population is purging strongly deleterious mutations, which, in the absence of further reductions in population size, may facilitate the persistence of small populations despite low genetic diversity and isolation. However, there is little to no purging of mildly deleterious alleles, which may have important long-term consequences, and should be considered by conservation and management programs. ### Competing Interest Statement KMC is a scientific advisor to the Australian Dingo Foundation, The New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society and The New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation. KMC and LB are members of the IUCN Canid Specialist Group Dingo Working Group.

The reason this dingo is this week's Weird of the Week is because it's a cute lil fluffball that you want to give all the treats to except you can't because it'll rip your face off.

Every fibre of your being is saying "go on, just one little scritch behind the ears" but at the same time you know you want to keep your fingers.

It’s the cognative dissonance. That’s the weird thing.

“Most of the 307 wild animals we tested were pure dingoes. Only a small proportion of wild dingoes had dog ancestry, probably from a great- or great-great-grandparent. There were no “first-cross” (50/50) hybrids or feral dogs in our wild-caught sample.

Essentially, all the “wild dogs” were dingoes.”

theconversation.com/new-dna-te #Australianews #dingo #dogs

The ConversationNew DNA testing shatters 'wild dog' myth: most dingoes are pureDingoes are not wild dogs, research reveals. Most of the 307 wild animals sampled in this study were pure dingo. Australia’s apex predator deserves our respect after thousands of years on this land.