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===Snow Tick===
Despite their misleading name, '''Snow Ticks''' are terrestrial bloodsucking parasites common to every land habitat on Fortune.
[[File:SnowTick_00.png|100px|thumb|A Snow Tick, showing the colouration common to individuals living in the Arctic Circle.]]
The Snow Tick takes advantages of the many large animals in it's habitat, using it's sturdiness and strong claws to cling to their skin, while an adapted leg siphons blood from it's host. Wretches and the various Chomper species are their most common hosts. As it feeds, it grows bloated and ever so slightly more fragile as its skin stretches to accommodate the fluid within. Once full in this manner, the Snow Tick leaves its host, hibernating inside a tree hollow or under a rock until it hungers again.

Snow Ticks spend a great deal of their lives asleep. Long slumber (3-4 days) punctuated by gorging themselves on a host and the occasional mating (sometimes done on a host if that's where they meet) comprises the entirety of their lives. Gross to humans, from the viewpoint of the tick (if it had one as a nonsentient) life is good.

Different ecotypes of the Snow Tick tend to inhabit areas, exhibiting slightly different coloured carapaces. In time, these may diverge into new species, should different pressures affect the various populations.