The Tick feeds off of the deers blood. The deer is not killed so the relationship is parasitism.
parasitism
The symbiosis relationship of a deer and a tick is parasitism. The deer is the harmed host and the tick is harming the host.
The relationship of a tick to a deer is parasitic, not symbiotic.
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They don't live together intentionally, but because deer do take refuge under trees and in brush, and ticks live in trees and brush, they're thrust together just like humans are...Because deer tick suck the deers blood. The deer is the deer ticks' host.
There's three reasons a deer ticks mostly get on deers and a tick mostly get on humans head or body. A deer tick gets on ticks and a tick just sucks blood from a human. A deer tick is much harder to get off then a tick.
a deer
The deer tick's genus is Ixodes; its species is I. scapularis.
the relationship is paratism.
it is a deer tick
The deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is an intermediate host for Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. The bacterium is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected deer tick.
deer tick is the type of tick that buries in the skin.