yeah i asked it again, last time i didn't word it right. This was told to me in highschool (8 years ago) and i haven't been able to confirm it. so once again, and i know what your thinking but no this isn't the same question, last time i asked it i hade the typing skills of a third grader.
2007-02-12 10:30:45 · 11 answers · asked by aphotic nostrum 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
see if you guys are right then what i heard was wrong i'm looking for conformation on this, i didn't even know ticks couldn't jump.
2007-02-12 17:41:45 · update #1
and magarita......ouch.....that's mean =( i'm usually on a laptop in the dark, in very akward positions.
2007-02-12 17:42:51 · update #2
Ticks are incapable of jumping.
However. A tick finds its host in two ways.
1. By hanging out at the end of a leaf, twig or branch with its first four legs out stretched and grabbing a host as it walks by.
2. Some can sense CO 2 that is expelled by animals and literally "hunt" their host. They can sense the movement of a host in the ground and will turn towards it following the CO 2 that the host puts out.
When a load of people pull up to a vacant park that has ticks in it. The ticks can feel the movement of the car, and sense the CO and CO2 output of the car when it arrives. Before they even get out of the car every tick in the area has already started its way towards them.
Thank God they don't move very fast.
They are also capable of spreading disease at every stage of development as well.
Check for ticks often and remove them without squeezing the body, best to use tweezers and grasp as close to the head as possible. Squeezing the body can push all of their previous blood meals into your body, along with viruses, bacterial and other pathogens.
2007-02-12 15:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by notmuchanextrovert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it could. I know that a flea can jump several times its own height - so if a FLEA where the size of a human, yes, it would probably get to that height (of the Empire State Building). A Tick on the other hand, I don't think will quite make it to that height... not even half the height of the building. See, a flea has the legs and body structure to be able to do that and pull of an extremely high jump. A tick doesn't seem to have the body structure to be able to QUITE pull it off - it's body weight would be a factor which would prevent it from getting very high, and it's legs won't be able to provide enough PUSH POWER to do it...
2007-02-13 00:11:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think ticks can jump. Did you mean a flea? Fleas are great jumpers. Although, they're tiny, they can jump about 300 times more than their bodies. Did you see this on Animal Planet's "The Most Extreme"?
2007-02-12 18:39:45 · answer #3 · answered by 3lixir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-02-12 19:18:10 · answer #4 · answered by gordios_thomas_icxc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG that would be a huge tick!! How would it eat, and how much!!
you would need a comercial paint gun to cover that bad boy in nail polish!!!
ewwww x 2
2007-02-13 06:06:41 · answer #5 · answered by Zelda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes ticks can jump, and quite far for their size ... so it very well could be quite possible for your hypothesis to be true.
2007-02-13 10:48:25 · answer #6 · answered by wolfeex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ticks don't jump. Are you sure you're not thinking of a flea?
2007-02-12 18:39:54 · answer #7 · answered by Angelique 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats crazy... and so awesome... no I never heard of it ... good to know in case I ever encounter a mutant tick in my life:)
2007-02-12 18:41:47 · answer #8 · answered by Kathleen Comber 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep, I've heard that too.
Glad to see your typing has improved ;)
2007-02-12 18:38:26 · answer #9 · answered by margarita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't get it is there a question in there?
2007-02-12 22:01:57 · answer #10 · answered by Seven*7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋