Juergen Freund / Paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) with engorged body on human hand, this species affects many species, Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) among them and infects them with a toxin that ca...

Aflo / Composite image of tick showing how its body expands after feeding

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) casualty of paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) bite being cared for on site of colony by Jenny Mclean, North Queensland, Australia, November 2012

Anup Shah / Leopard cub with ticks in ears {Panthera pardus} Masai Mara, Kenya

Doug Gimesy / Rear left ankle of a male Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) showing venomous spur and ticks (Ixodes ornithothynchi). Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia. May 2018.

Edwin Giesbers / Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) searching for ticks on Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag resting in grassland. Richmond Park, London, England, UK.

Doug Gimesy / Researchers from Earthcare St Kilda checking Little penguin (Eudyptula minor) chick for ticks and flees. St Kilda breakwater, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. December, 2016. Model released.

Staffan Widstrand / Common Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), with a Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) eating its ticks and other parasites, Zimanga Private Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Staffan Widstrand / Common Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), with a Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) eating its ticks and other parasites, Zimanga Private Nature Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Oscar Dewhurst / Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) stag and Western jackdaw (Corvus monedula) picking ticks from its ear. Richmond Park, London, UK. September. Cropped

Oscar Dewhurst / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag and Western jackdaw (Corvus monedula) picking ticks off deer's face. Richmond Park, London. September

Richard Du Toit / Impala (Aepyceros melampus) male with Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) feeding on ticks, Itala Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa