Ticks are bugs that attach themselves to a passing animal whenever they are hungry.
If left to complete their meal of blood they then let go and drop back into the grass or earth where they live. However, if they are knocked off whilst still feeding, the jaws remain locked on to the skin, even though the rest of the body has become separated. The tick we are going to look at here lives mostly in Africa in the burrow homes of warthogs and bush pigs. It is called Ornithodoros. Bush Pig Warthog Ornithodoros lives there because it prefers the blood of the pig-like animals.