All living beings are equal in front of the common ram. He takes whoever he catches as host. Less common species are a bit more picky.
Ticks are not gourmets. To survive, they suck blood through their proboscis from anyone they catch. “They wait in the grass and let humans or animals strip them off,” says the parasitologist Georg Duscher. The impression of a “press” reader that his two dogs are more likely to be attacked by ticks than he is, is still true to a certain extent.
“Animals also move in tall grass and bushes and are more likely to come into contact with ticks,” says Duscher. In addition, ticks can get along the hair of pets directly on the skin – humans protect their clothes. In dogs, for example, most stings are found in the head and chest area, where the ticks were easiest to get onto their host, reports Duscher. And while humans tend to walk on paths, animals like to use the paths of other animals, such as deer. The fully sucked ticks drop from these and wait for a new host to come by. However, ticks tend to be lazy animals, says Duscher. It takes a while for them to approach. “Breathing air and body odor activate them, for example from grazing cattle. Then they come out and can be stripped off. ”Similar to the horse, although they probably catch riders less often because they sit further up. “Ticks wait for blades of grass and bushes that are no more than one meter high,” says Duscher.
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