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The dingo (Canis lupus dingo) is an Australian wolf-dog and is as fast as wolves or other wild dogs, about 50 km/hr for 600-700 meters and slower over longer distances. Canids are "endurance predators," which means they're more long-distance runners than sprinters. Appropriately, many Australian animals which could wind up as the dingo's dinner are also marathon runners.

Incidentally, the dingo is not native to Australia, in the long sense. A placental mammal, it was brought to the continent by man as much as 50,000 years ago (though some would prefer a later date). It took over the niche of the native marsupial predator, the thylacine, which finally went extinct in the 1930's.

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