Watch: Dingo hunts shark in K’gari waters

In nature’s ultimate predator swap a dingo has turned the tables on a shark in extraordinary footage captured off K’gari’s coastline.

A dingo has proven the lengths it will go to for a feed after it grabbed a shark from the shallows that a fisherman tried to release twice on K’gari.

The video, shared by Ethan Clarke, showed the moment the dingo plucked the shark out of the sea and took it to shore.

Mr Clarke said the incident happened last night just north of Eurong.

He caught the shark while fishing and tried to release it twice.

“But the dingo swam out after it,” he said.

“Wish I recorded the whole thing.”

It is not the first time a fisherman has captured a dingo on film.

In November 2023, another video emerged of a fisherman staring down a dingo on the island as the animal made a move for his catch.

The footage showed the man carrying a large fish reeled in from the surf as a cheeky dingo showed interest in his haul on Seventy Five Mile Beach near Eli Creek.

In a third more controversial viral video, a camper using a fishing line and a raw chicken up in a tree to “catch” a dingo on K’gari prompted a warning from the Queensland Environment and Science Department.

That video, published in August, prompted a reminder from a DES spokesman that anyone with information about the deliberate feeding or making food available to dingoes should report it.

The state government’s management of dingoes on the island emphasises no feeding, secure food storage, and calm, non-engaging behaviour around dingoes.

These measures help maintain natural hunting patterns and support the health of K’gari’s distinctive dingo population.

On K’gari dingoes are the apex predators, hunting across beaches, dunes, and forests with keen awareness of tide, wind, and cover.

They target small to medium prey such as wallabies, bandicoots, possums, reptiles, and shorebirds, and will opportunistically take fish washed up on the shore – or, as seen in the video, even pull fish from the shallow waters.

While many hunts are solitary, dingoes sometimes co-operate, using quick bursts to flush animals into waiting pack mates.

Young dingoes learn by shadowing adults, practising stalks and pounces on crabs and skinks.

* This story was created with assistance from AI.