Table 5.

Correlations (Kendall’s tau) between numbers of tick life stages/tick sex on one body part, with tick numbers of the same life stage/sex on other body parts on European roe deer from the field ecotype.

	Head	Neck	Front legs	Hind legs
Neck—Nymph	− 0.103
Front legs—Nymph	0.190	0.338**
Hind legs—Nymph	No	No	No
Abdomen—Nymph	No	No	No	No
Neck—Female	0.570***
Front legs—Female	0.440***	0.646***
Hind legs—Females	0.360**	0.614***	0.710***
Abdomen—Female	0.324**	0.253*	0.449***	0.382***
Neck—Male	0.732***
Front legs—Male	0.342**	0.481***
Hind legs—Male	0.488***	0.407***	0.387***
Abdomen—Male	0.333**	0.192	0.180	0.020
Neck—Ticks	0.616***
Front legs—Ticks	0.534***	0.663***
Hind legs—Ticks	0.453***	0.640***	0.647***
Abdomen—Ticks	0.368***	0.311**	0.410***	0.347**

*p ≤ 0.05; ** ≤ 0.01; *** ≤ 0.001; no—no data.