Footage has emerged of a sunbathing woman who was attacked by a dingo while she was on the Australian island of K'gari.
The woman, a French tourist in her 20s according to 7News, had been sunbathing on a beach on the Queensland island when a dingo came up to her and sunk its teeth into her rear end.
This incident occurred in April, and two months later a 10-year-old boy suffered puncture wounds to the arms and shoulders after he was attacked and dragged along by a dingo on one of the island's beaches.
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In the French tourist's case footage shows at least three dingoes walking along the beach and going right by a group of people sat upon the sand.
One of the animals then walks right up to the sunbathing woman, who was lying on her front before the dingo bit her on the bottom.
She yelped in pain and got up to run off while the dingo tried to take another bite while another person on the beach rushed over to advise her not to run.
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The dingo in question was later 'humanely euthanised' according to the Queensland Department for Environment and Science.
There are about 200 wild dingoes on the island and a number of them have had to be put down by authorities after attacking humans.
Strict rules are in place banning people from feeding the animals to avoid them associating humans with food and potentially responding with aggression if they don't get what they're expecting.
K’gari assistant principal ranger Danielle Mansfield told 7News that they'd seen the dingo which recently attacked the young boy 'digging up food scraps that had been buried in the sand' and that it didn't appear to be afraid of humans.
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"Rangers believe this animal is one of a number of wongari that have been deliberately or inadvertently fed, which is why they’re showing no fear of people," she explained as the reason behind the creature's boldness when it came to being around people.
"These animals are capable of inflicting serious harm, and they have bitten children and adults, and some are quite brazen and are not fleeing when yelled at or when someone brandishes a stick."
She said that other people on the island said they'd been 'stalked or snarled at' by dingoes and that the animals have been spotted lurking around campsites and other areas tourists have gathered.
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Mansfield explained that this behaviour was consistent with the animals having been fed by people before.
Joe Harker