A dingo on a popular Queensland tourist island has shown it’s not picky when it comes to dinner after being spotted plucking a shark from the surf.

A fisherman uploaded the unusual video to social media , taken on the eastern side of K’gari, north of Eurong.

The man said he had accidentally caught what is believed to be a young whaler shark and had attempted to release it twice before the dingo shot through the shallow water and grabbed the ocean predator as it began swimming back out to sea.

The quick-thinking dingo ran off with his prize as the shocked fisherman watched, taking out his phone to capture the moment.

Large numbers of whaler sharks have been seen in the region recently . Last week hundreds of sharks, many believed to be whalers, were seen off Moreton Island lured

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