Table 4 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 forest ecotype.

	Head	Neck	Front legs	Hind legs
Neck—Nymph	0.213
Front legs—Nymph	0.360**	0.244*
Hind legs—Nymph	− 0.045	− 0.045	− 0.093
Abdomen—Nymph	0.143	− 0.065	0.066	− 0.037
Neck—Female	0.281*
Front legs—Female	0.356**	0.244*
Hind legs—Females	0.277*	0.172	0.359**
Abdomen—Female	0.010	0.092	0.218*	0.114
Neck—Male	0.109
Front legs—Male	0.230*	0.184
Hind legs—Male	0.054	0.040	0.143
Abdomen—Male	0.114	0.154	0.380***	0.059
Neck—Ticks	0.333**
Front legs—Ticks	0.370***	0.277*
Hind legs—Ticks	0.311**	0.122	0.395***
Abdomen—Ticks	0.224*	0.232*	0.263*	0.148

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