Okokimup@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that even though ticks can't fly or jump, they can use static electricity to launch themselves onto passing mammalswww.science.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down10cross-posted to: science@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1101arrow-down1external-linkTIL that even though ticks can't fly or jump, they can use static electricity to launch themselves onto passing mammalswww.science.orgOkokimup@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: science@lemmy.ml
minus-squareBrickTamland@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoHow though? This would seem like a thing of chance if they actually got swept up by the static charge of something passing by. How would the tick control its own charge?
minus-squareMadMenace@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThey probably don’t. Even if some ticks get swept up by non-hosts and die, enough find food this way to make it favorable to evolution.
How though? This would seem like a thing of chance if they actually got swept up by the static charge of something passing by. How would the tick control its own charge?
They probably don’t. Even if some ticks get swept up by non-hosts and die, enough find food this way to make it favorable to evolution.