Not a dog

     On a windy autumn day on a green hill near Gisborne in Victoria, Lyn Watson, the co-founder of the Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and Research Centre, calls out to Snapple, a male dingo. The red-blond canine trots over and sits patiently as Watson...

The enigmatic dingo

Not dog or wolf, dingoes live in the wild but are curious about humans. They can fish, too. It was fascinating to learn more about them when I contributed to this article with Jim Gorman in The New York Times.

Location, location, location

After writing about US emergency number 911 for TIME magazine, I was curious to see how Australia's triple-0 compared. Of course, it's a whole other place, much smaller population, different habits around technology, and different regulatory environment....