Ticks are the insect equivalent of vampires. Anyone who has had tick bite fever will testify to skull-cracking headaches and joints that ache as if one were on a medieval rack.
These voracious little bloodsuckers can sink their mouth parts into the hide of an elephant. Out in the bush, then, what chance do SA National Parks (SANParks) rangers and their dogs stand? Not much, is the answer. It’s a constant battle to keep the antipoaching dogs free of diseases such as biliary fever, which kills if not treated properly.
Read more on this story in The Citizen, September 6, 2014.
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