Oh, you must go camping with a toddler. You can’t call yourself a complete parent until you have experienced the sheer terror of being someplace rough and remote, full of creepy crawlies and plants that bite, and being out of mobile-phone range. 
You will appreciate civilization all the more when you return, (hopefully) safe and sound.
Best $400.00 I ever spent. 
New story: Dingo tries to take teenager in sleeping bag.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/07/17/310971_ntnews.html
I don’t know how the doubters can keep denying this could have happened to Azaria Chamberlain.
Dingo don’t give a shit.
So the evidence that a dingo did it was just convenient?
It was all staged to show Dingos in bad light.
I don’t think so much is wrong with this. She certainly would have been within earshot had she started crying, and you really don’t expect a dingo to go into a tent (the tent was also closed wasn’t it?)
I was kid when this happened,
From what I recall, a lot of the discussion in New Zealand centered not around how “weird” the Chamberlains were (I can’t even remember that at all), but rather three things that seemed very unlikely
a) A dingo entering a tent and then carrying off a baby
b) the dingo being able to undress the baby
c) the lack of blood on the clothes.
Since that case - how many other babies have been carried off? Here we can see just a few, very isolated cases in more than 30 years. It seems to underscore the unlikliness more than anything else.
The decision has been made, and a dingo did it - fine, they have far more evidence than us to make the decision so to call it into question is rather churlish to say the least.
For some though, there will always be doubts.
And please remember, camping simply isn’t that dangerous. My brother lives there, he takes his toddler camping all the time. It’s not a worry.
It’s sometimes been suggested locally that the dingo was cross bred from the local aboriginal camp and the local rangers covered up the crime. I’m quite sure a dingo killed the baby but there seems to be some sort of human involvement afterwards.
No doubt the Chamberlains were weird and the supposed evidence of blood in the car boot proved the crime.
Unlikely things happen all the time. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia
Heh. A local man took a vacation photo of his wife and toddler on a not-very-wild bay area hiking trail, and when he got the photo back, was horrified to see the face of a mountain lion in the tall yellow grass behind the pair. It was peering out at them interestedly. He had never seen it when taking the photo.
Most of our local rural trails here in the bay area have mountain lion warnings posted along them, yet people take their chances and hike anyway, me included.
I’ve just learned from this thread what a dingo is. Because of the silly name, I had always assumed that it was some harmless little marsupial, and that “a dingo ate my baby” was therefore a lame excuse.
I wonder how many other people thought likewise…?
I doubt there would have been any jokes about “a wild dog ate my baby” or “a wolf ate my baby”.
I have no experience with wolves or coyotes, but dingoes are silent, I mean silent stalkers. And unlike domestic dogs, they can dislocate their jaw to accommodate large prey. Curiously, they are highly attracted to human urine.
So yeah. Not so unbelievable that Azaria was taken.
And don’t be fooled by ‘silly’ names, Kiyoshi - you wouldn’t think a platypus produces venom, would you…
Imma have to see a reliable scientific citation for that. Aren’t they dogs?
Repeated studies of (other) dogs have shown that myths about some breeds having “locking jaws” are false:
I would be surprised if the jaws of a dingo are any different, structurally, from those of a standard domesticated dog.
That’s a sociology paper on how humans have depicted dingoes, not a study of physiology. Most of the sites I can find (so far) for the claim that they dislocate their jaws seem to be quoting it, and all I can find (so far) is the bald assertion that they can.
Since people tell so many myths about animals, especially animals they fear, I am reluctant to take at face value a claim that so closely resembles an urban legend in format usage.
I’m hoping to see something more definite.
Oh good point.
In that case, this is what I found and it seems to say that mandible dislocation is theoretically possible.
I may be compelled to phone the zoo for a definitive answer…
I think you’re thinking of the thylacine, an extinct dog-like animal capable of opening its jaws up to 120°. Thylacine - Wikipedia
I found a video, Tasmanian Tiger/ thylacine combined footage - YouTube at 2:22
Thanks for that video AaronX, but I wasn’t confusing a dingo with a Tassie Tiger.
It may transpire that I was confusing fact with fiction…!