Home: New Guinea
Size: 13 to 18 inches at the withers
17 to 30
pounds
Singing Dog Trivia:
- The New Guinea Singing Dog dates back to prehistoric
times. They have lived wild and partially domesticated.
- The wild Singing Dogs are carnivores.
- The first captured dogs were sent to zoos in Europe and
the United States in 1957.
- Some domesticated dogs now live with people as pets.
- These dogs are lively, alert and active.
- To communicate, the Singing Dogs yelp, whine and howl,
as though singing.
- These dogs are generally gentle and affectionate with people, but may be aggressive towards other dogs.
Our Meet the Animals section includes research from the following websites:
The Austin Zoo's website: www.austinzoo.org.
Spanish translations courtesy of the Austin Zoo.
Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center http://www.rhrwildlife.com/animbot.htm
The Birmingham Zoo http://www.birminghamzoo.com/
The WWW Virtual Library: Zoos http://zoonet.home.mindspring.com/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html
Photographs in Our Meet the Animals Section from PrintMaster Platinum v8.0 software.
Research on farm animals came primarily from http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/