Ok, I've had a few questions for a while about Zombies.
1. I can understand being infected by some kind of virus or biological phenomena, but why do they usually decompose only to the point of being disgusting and no further? Let me explain using Resident Evil as an example, the people that were killed by the fire extinguishing system, (I don't know how it is spelled), that sucks all oxygen out of the air killing the fire and any people, those people were semi rotted if I remember right. Also the lock down wasn't active for long before the team arrived to investigate and therefore not enough time for decomposition of that stage. In zombie movies where zombies have been active for a while, the zombies aren't turning into goo, nor are they healing the injuries from life.
2. Why do zombies only eat living flesh? One would think that a group of less than semi-intelligent creatures would eat anything and everything that they can, even rotting/dead flesh. My point being if a zombie apocalypse were to happen why wouldn't they eat each other during and after eating everyone still living? Essentially some survivors could stay hidden until all of the zombies ate each other into nonexistence.
3. Why don't we see the survivors affected by the smell of a mass of rotting flesh? I have to admit I've not seen every zombie movie, but I've not see one movie where all any of the characters are bent over vomiting because of the stench coming from several hundred if not thousand corpses shambling towards them.
4. How does a virus cause a hive mind effect on the reanimated cadavers, a non-intelligent organism, creating a mass brain among dead flesh? I know that it's possible in nature, locusts are an example of that, but dead brains + dead brains, even on a massive scale, does not equal a massive super brain. So a group of zombies should not be able to coordinated large scale attacks on hideouts of living tissue. Nor should they work at all with each other, if their brain is capable of keeping it alive by eating, it's also going to fight for food; and therefore zombies would fight each other for food, us. (Ignore this question please, I'm leaving it here just so people know it was here, thanks for the corrections.)
5. How does a zombie, a dead body reanimated, have a greater ability to smell, or even a sixth sense to detect blood/living flesh then it had previously in life?
6. How do zombies continue to eat? A normal person can only eat so much before becoming fatigued and sluggish, and the human stomach can only hold a finite amount. If zombies have a higher metabolism then, when and how did they get it? A virus that simply reanimates dead flesh could not also reorganize the human body into super killing eating machines.
7. Why do zombies shamble, crawl, and overall move slowly, (in most zombie movies), if the body was an Olympic sprinter, then became a zombie, they it still has the ability to be an Olympic sprinter. If it's because of muscle degeneration the how do they move at all or eat for that matter?
If you have questions about zombies feel free to ask, but I'm more interested in the answers. I hope that people will not take this as an attack on zombies and/or zombie movies. This is not, I am not against the making of or the previously made zombie movies, games, or anything else. I am simply curious about the anatomy of zombies, how do they work? Or how would they work in reality? I'm trying to be serious with this, so I would prefer serious answers please and thank you. Think of this as a scientific discussion.
EDIT: Ok I was wrong, zombies have a pack mentallity, not a hive mind I apologize for the mix up. Oh, and feel free to post your own questions. (and I fixed the question mark that was on the begining statement)
guywithnicehair: Ok, I've had a few questions for a while about Zombies?
1.I can understand being infected by some kind of virus or biological phenomena, but why do they usually decompose only to the point of being disgusting and no further?
See Return of the Living Dead, they go pretty far in this. Generally the line is "recent dead" for an outbreak film and for a post-outbreak film there's normally a hand wave in the logic of the disease/radiation preserving them.
2. Why do zombies only eat living flesh? One would think that a group of less than semi-intelligent creatures would eat anything and everything that they can, even rotting/dead flesh.
One of the producers on Night of the Living Dead was a butcher and had access to free off-meat. The most unpleasant thing they could think of the zombies to do was cannibalism. It just stuck because it was so unpleasant.
3. Why don't we see the survivors affected by the smell of a mass of rotting flesh? I have to admit I've not seen every zombie movie, but I've not see one movie where all any of the characters are bent over vomiting because of the stench coming from several hundred if not thousand corpses shambling towards them.
Generally film is a visual medium and smell isn't a big deal. The comic Walking Dead mentions the smell continually and it is mentioned in the opening cinematic for Left 4 Dead.
4. How does a virus cause a hive mind effect on the reanimated cadavers, a non-intelligent organism, creating a mass brain among dead flesh? I know that it's possible in nature, locusts are an example of that, but dead brains + dead brains, even on a massive scale, does not equal a massive super brain. So a group of zombies should not be able to coordinated large scale attacks on hideouts of living tissue. Nor should they work at all with each other, if their brain is capable of keeping it alive by eating, it's also going to fight for food; and therefore zombies would fight each other for food, us.
There is no scientific reason for this. The reason zombies are scary is because as a mass of psychotic people acting together they represent our fear of the mob. And in that they are dead they represent out most primal of fears. And finally because they are inexplicable and unnatural they defy humanity's need to categorise.
5. How does a zombie, a dead body reanimated, have a greater ability to smell, or even a sixth sense to detect blood/living flesh then it had previously in life?
Whatever caused the zombititis caused this.
6. How do zombies continue to eat? A normal person can only eat so much before becoming fatigued and sluggish, and the human stomach can only hold a finite amount. If zombies have a higher metabolism then, when and how did they get it? A virus that simply reanimates dead flesh could not also reorganize the human body into super killing eating machines.
I believe there are examples of exploding stomachs in film. There is no clear pattern with them getting nutrition from eating or just the desire to.
7. Why do zombies shamble, crawl, and overall move slowly, (in most zombie movies), if the body was an Olympic sprinter, then became a zombie, they it still has the ability to be an Olympic sprinter. If it's because of muscle degeneration the how do they move at all or eat for that matter?
Rigor mortis (see Return of the Living Dead) + a poorly functioning brain probably can't coordinate a run.
PsyberGoth: Yeah, and also, Zombies don't have a hive mind, it's just a mass of individuals.
Read the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. It lays it all out for you.
I'm sick of people referencing that. His chemical explanation falls into the obvious trap of explaining something that logically can't fit with natural laws.
PsyberGoth: Yeah, and also, Zombies don't have a hive mind, it's just a mass of individuals.
Read the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. It lays it all out for you.
I'm sick of people referencing that. His chemical explanation falls into the obvious trap of explaining something that logically can't fit with natural laws.
My recommendation was more about zombie behavior than the reason that they exist. sorry for the confusion. I agree. the Solanum crap is bogus.
I don't know. Nor do I care. Just like I don't care about the biological functions of vampires and werewolves. It just is. There doesn't have to be a reason for everything. It's fantasy. I don't question magic and summoning, so why would I question zombies?
I typed it in Word and copied it into the forum to post, why?
The little apostrophes don't paste over properly. Screws with the formatting. I'm not sure which fonts do it but the format them so they don't come out properly on html for a moment. Just wondering if it was an argument you'd posted elsewhere.
Hope my explanations helped! Bit of a zombie buff here.
My recommendation was more about zombie behavior than the reason that they exist. sorry for the confusion. I agree. the Solanum crap is bogus.
Yeah, agreed. My problem reading it was, "Yeah, like I hadn't thought of that." Also it'll help more people survive when (not if) it happens, and I'm not overly fond of that.
My recommendation was more about zombie behavior than the reason that they exist. sorry for the confusion. I agree. the Solanum crap is bogus.
Yeah, agreed. My problem reading it was, "Yeah, like I hadn't thought of that." Also it'll help more people survive when (not if) it happens, and I'm not overly fond of that.
Yes. Only we gamers and the military naturally possess the skills required to survive the inevitable zombie uprising. all those other idiots can be zombie-chow for all i care. (if i interpreted you statement correctly)
galletea: I don't know. Nor do I care. Just like I don't care about the biological functions of vampires and werewolves. It just is. There doesn't have to be a reason for everything. It's fantasy. I don't question magic and summoning, so why would I question zombies?
Then again I'm bored of zombies.
I'm not a particular fan of zombies, I was just talking with my brother about it and figured I would get a wider range of information in a forum. Especially from a forum with a large number of gaming nerds, (no offence ment), that think about this kind of thing as well.
Yes. Only we gamers and the military naturally possess the skills required to survive the inevitable zombie uprising. all those other idiots can be zombie-chow for all i care. (if i interpreted you statement correctly)
Yeah. I've got a vaguely military part of me anyway. Plus army bases will be slaughterhouses at the offset so there won't be too many mentalist soldiers to worry about. The geek truly shall inherit the earth.
galletea: I don't know. Nor do I care. Just like I don't care about the biological functions of vampires and werewolves. It just is. There doesn't have to be a reason for everything. It's fantasy. I don't question magic and summoning, so why would I question zombies?
Exactly, part of the point is that you can't explain them using science. All undead defy human beings' understanding of the world so are naturally unnerving. If you explain something in detail it stops being scary. The rule should be "they exist, deal". That's not the same giving them a reason for existence but it's the difference between the "why" and the "how".
Why: Radition/rabies caused them. Dracula was cursed by god/is Judas/Cain. Product of witches taking congress with Satan. All cool and fun.
I've an answer to 3. If you saw a large group of hungry rampaging zombies coming towards you, or even near you. Wouldn't adreneline (probably spelt wrong) kick in, dulling things like sense of smell and taste.
Good questions and I'll try to answer any I can 1.In zombie films that happen at the start of an outbreak (night of the living dead) zombies are either newly dead so not decomposed or have risen from graveyards so they will be decomposed. Or they have been injured by other zombies which is why they would look decomposed. 2.Sometimes zombies will feast on each other if they are desperate. Rotten flesh lacks the taste of fresh meat. 3.In some films they are shown to vomit but in most films adrenaline takes over which makes you less likely to vomit. 4 and 5.Zombification is a virus and a virus can have many effects on its victims. Another explanation for 4 is that they dont have a hive mind they are just desperate for living flesh and will find anyway to get it, 6.In many films it is said they do not need to eat but eating brains and flesh gives them pleasure. 7.Many zombies are injured by other zombies(thats how they became one of them) so they are going to move slow becase of their injuries. Or the zombification virus increases the rate at which certain muscles decay.
Of course for every question you could just put:Its a movie it doesnt need to be realistic. But I'd like to give you some actual answers.
guywithnicehair: Ok, I've had a few questions for a while about Zombies?
1. I can understand being infected by some kind of virus or biological phenomena, but why do they usually decompose only to the point of being disgusting and no further? Let me explain using Resident Evil as an example, the people that were killed by the fire extinguishing system, (I don't know how it is spelled), that sucks all oxygen out of the air killing the fire and any people, those people were semi rotted if I remember right. Also the lock down wasn't active for long before the team arrived to investigate and therefore not enough time for decomposition of that stage. In zombie movies where zombies have been active for a while, the zombies aren't turning into goo, nor are they healing the injuries from life.
2. Why do zombies only eat living flesh? One would think that a group of less than semi-intelligent creatures would eat anything and everything that they can, even rotting/dead flesh. My point being if a zombie apocalypse were to happen why wouldn't they eat each other during and after eating everyone still living? Essentially some survivors could stay hidden until all of the zombies ate each other into nonexistence.
3. Why don't we see the survivors affected by the smell of a mass of rotting flesh? I have to admit I've not seen every zombie movie, but I've not see one movie where all any of the characters are bent over vomiting because of the stench coming from several hundred if not thousand corpses shambling towards them.
4. How does a virus cause a hive mind effect on the reanimated cadavers, a non-intelligent organism, creating a mass brain among dead flesh? I know that it's possible in nature, locusts are an example of that, but dead brains + dead brains, even on a massive scale, does not equal a massive super brain. So a group of zombies should not be able to coordinated large scale attacks on hideouts of living tissue. Nor should they work at all with each other, if their brain is capable of keeping it alive by eating, it's also going to fight for food; and therefore zombies would fight each other for food, us.
5. How does a zombie, a dead body reanimated, have a greater ability to smell, or even a sixth sense to detect blood/living flesh then it had previously in life?
6. How do zombies continue to eat? A normal person can only eat so much before becoming fatigued and sluggish, and the human stomach can only hold a finite amount. If zombies have a higher metabolism then, when and how did they get it? A virus that simply reanimates dead flesh could not also reorganize the human body into super killing eating machines.
7. Why do zombies shamble, crawl, and overall move slowly, (in most zombie movies), if the body was an Olympic sprinter, then became a zombie, they it still has the ability to be an Olympic sprinter. If it's because of muscle degeneration the how do they move at all or eat for that matter?
If you have questions about zombies feel free to ask, but I'm more interested in the answers. I hope that people will not take this as an attack on zombies and/or zombie movies. This is not, I am not against the making of or the previously made zombie movies, games, or anything else. I am simply curious about the anatomy of zombies, how do they work? Or how would they work in reality? I'm trying to be serious with this, so I would prefer serious answers please and thank you. Think of this as a scientific discussion.
It's all in the Brainz..... Circulation becomes little, so their skin becomes pale and even necrotizes, and what do you think would happen if you did nothing to a hole bitten out of your arm if you weren't mentally functioning? Most zombies just know that they're hungry, and they prolly function off of pheremones, which other zombies wouldn't produce. They're too stupid to really run, but the concept of basid movement is so ingrained in our minds, we can literally do it in our sleep. That's my explaination.
I wish people would stop referencing The zombie survival guide as if it were the gospel truth. It's just a bloody book, just like any other book. It might be popular, sure, but discussing zombies and only referencing one source of fiction isn't a discussion of zombies, it's just another Max Brooks fanboi collection. Please, get over it, realise it's just a book.
Personally, I've never seen any fiction where zombies have a hive mind, I'd rather call it a pack sense which would also be my explanation to why they don't eat each other. It's the same reason the survivors aren't eating each other. If you wait long enough, then maybe. Or maybe the virus or magic that raised them makes takes all the nourishment out of their flesh.
I'd answer the sixth and seventh question with the same thing. They're not truly alive, and they're no longer sentient. Their motor control is poor, at best, and most of their higher brain functions are shut off, this sort of explains the fifth question as well, all energy is devoted to a few things, finding food. Most animals have a seemingly sixth sense of danger, and that is mostly not because of heightened senses, but rather because they're not preoccupied by a lot of thoughts all the time. Since they are so near shut off in the brain department, and since they're not really alive their bodies are decomposing and unable to use fine motorics, like bending legs, the precise balancing required to run, and shambling is all they're left with. That they never stop eating I'd explain with how many they are and how little food is avaviable, after a certain point, if you look at them they don't really seem to be that good at it either, dropping a lot of the food, and probably not processing it very well, given their metabolism. That they'd be fatigued and sluggish I don't really see how we'd notice, given that they're already only shambling slowly and groaning, perhaps because of their tummies aching.
I'd also say that zombies doesn't only eat living flesh, but that they need as fresh meat as possible, it could also have to do with instincts rooted deep in their minds, the sense of pack and of being a predator, a living being that is not part of the pack registers as food, an already dead body might be filed away as a last resort. If no living beings are found, they turn to scavenging, eating the recently dead.
Many zombie fictions I've read also state that zombies DO decompose, either all the time, but that it takes quite a while for them to reach a state where they're unable to do anything, it could also be concieved that eating keeps them from decomposing further, they derive their energy from external sources, but if no external energy is provided they turn internally, and start decomposing, using their own bodies as a source of fuel. The debate wether they are truly dead or not also comes in, if they are kept in a form of limbo between life as we know it and true death, that might also explain why, they may not decompose at all, while under the influence of the virus, but perhaps it only takes root in people below a certain point of decomposition (is that a word?). Much of the damage to their bodies could be explained away as just that as well, zombies aren't known to be very gentle when they infect people, and tend to eat you as much as just bite you to make you rise. After a while the virus takes effect, and the former food now registers as a member of the pack, causing the search for a new source to start, again.
I'd keep writing, but this has gotten long enough as it is, and I've got dinner waiting.
The whole concept of zombies is ridiculous. You need energy to move. There is still some energy left in a dead body which is reduced as it decomposes. Since none of their organs are working (they're dead), they can't get more energy from what they eat. After a very short time, they would run out of energy and simply collapse.
Thank you Silver for you serious, if langthy, answer(s). I also appologise for the Hive Mind referance, I guess I should have worded that differently, but it still raises the question of where it comes from. Humans no longer, if they ever, have a pack mentality, so where would a zombie get it? Oh and yes decomposition is a word.
Humans do have a pack mentality. How do you think mobs are formed? Why do you think many people, if a bit discreetly, try to find their own place in every social group, try out everyone and see who is he "alpha". We may be a bit more sophisticated, and we may try to ignore it, but we are pack animals. Look at all the social groups around the world, groups of friends, gangs. That's pure pack mentality right there, even territories are spoken for, not only amongst the gangs. A group of friends usually hangs around the same places, the same bars, if a new group "invades" their place it can easily lead to conflicts.
It's already there. Strip away some layers of extra thoughts and we're right there, amongst the animals, as a pack.
Bucket, they are eating and they are moving. The logical conclusion is some of their organs are in fact still working, and that they do in fact can extract energy from their food. They're not completely dead, they wouldn't be moving if they were, would they?
Zombie's are made up...they do not have to be logical. When did any superhero, or other mythical being ever have to be logical? Your questions are redundant good sir. Feel free to have a field day when the zombie apocalypse happens, though.
The difference is that while other mythical beings (I'd call zombies fictional instead of mythological, since it's very rarely the mythological variety that's on trial) like vampires, mermaids, griffins or whatever never try to be logical, zombies are made up with the specific purpose to be explained. In any zombie fiction explaining HOW is just as important than the fact that they're really here. Characters always theorise on why, they explain to the newcomer how things happened, and they come up with their own counters.
In a vampire movie no one ever wonders WHY Dracula can't stand the sunlight, why garlic repels him or why he can't cross running water, but in every zombie movie someone always asks. Why are they here? What went wrong?
That is part of the reason zombies are so interesting. Dead people just up and walking we've seen before, but with zombies there's the explicit cause behind it, there's a reason they're out there, and that reason is something we can figure out, something we can do something about, something we can stop before it happens, and something that always, inevitably goes wrong.
1. The best anwser I can give for this is that most of thoes Zombies are not decomposing, they are half eaten.
2. I am not a biologist but at a guess I would assume that the Zombies need living flesh to keep themselves alive. I don't know if dead flesh would cut it. Also if they are eating to maintain themselves that could be while they find other zombies unappealing. Thoes Zombies are missing what they need, living creatures have it. The other possability is that zombies "know" each other and wouldn't harm one of their own. (I don't believe in this personaly)
3. This has been touched on before. The best explanation I can give you is that your body enters "fight or flight" mode where you are to busy to notice "minor" things like bad smell and after a while you just don't notice it anymore. (I think it's called selective perception) It's like when you walk into a friends house who has a pet. You go "What's that smell?" and your friend say's "What smell?" They don't notice it anymore.
4. Zombies go to where the food is. There is no communication between Zombies. Them notice food, them go to food, them eat food, repeat.
5. Zombies have all the senses of the person they were before, the differece is they use them more effectivly. Human's in general are very sight oriented, zombies reley on all their senses equally. It's as simple as that.
6. Zombies do not notice their bodly functions. (If they even have any) There is no swich in their brain that tells them to stop eating. If their digestion process can't keep up then the food will just come out somewhere else.
7. They have the phisical ability yes, what they don't have is the coordination required to run. They barely have the ability to put one foot in front of the other. Much less do it quickly without triping over themselves. You must remember that they are operating at the most basic level. Fast zombies have better coordination. I guess it comes down to what part to the brain the virus shuts down. ------ A note I would like to add is that many people define "Zombies" as the dead who have come back to life. This may even be the offical definition. I would like to point out that in many senarios the "Zombies" that are there are not recently revived bodies but people who have be changed into primitive, shambling, mindless animals. Though I can't say what type of "Zombie" virus will be unleashed in the future it will most likely be this type of virus. This will make these zombies even more dangerous, because if you do cut them, they will bleed and if you get their blood on you. . . . well you know.
2.I figure they have at least some of their senses(if they can at least see, what else could they do?) so they can probably taste what they eat. Dead flesh must taste really bad. 7.They're dead, but they're moving, so they're brain dead. Being brain dead, they wouldn't have the coordination to run and jump. It's why they shuffle and drag their feet a lot.dn't have the coordination to run and jump. It's why they shuffle and drag their feet a lot.
watch the movie 'fido' i think haha.. it about putting zombies to good use.. hahah one will choose if one would be buried or become zombies after death.. a stupid movie but about zombies. haha
Silver: Humans do have a pack mentality. How do you think mobs are formed? Why do you think many people, if a bit discreetly, try to find their own place in every social group, try out everyone and see who is he "alpha". We may be a bit more sophisticated, and we may try to ignore it, but we are pack animals. Look at all the social groups around the world, groups of friends, gangs. That's pure pack mentality right there, even territories are spoken for, not only amongst the gangs. A group of friends usually hangs around the same places, the same bars, if a new group "invades" their place it can easily lead to conflicts.
I guess I hadn't thought of that at the time but yes I see your point. I would be getting really picky if I asked for anything more. Thanks.
It's like when someone asked "Why are zombies slow?" 28 Days Later was born.
And I just watched that move about an hour ago. Anway
guywithnicehair: Ok, I've had a few questions for a while about Zombies?
That's a statement, not a question.
guywithnicehair:
1. I can understand being infected by some kind of virus or biological phenomena, but why do they usually decompose only to the point of being disgusting and no further? Let me explain using Resident Evil as an example, the people that were killed by the fire extinguishing system, (I don't know how it is spelled), that sucks all oxygen out of the air killing the fire and any people, those people were semi rotted if I remember right. Also the lock down wasn't active for long before the team arrived to investigate and therefore not enough time for decomposition of that stage. In zombie movies where zombies have been active for a while, the zombies aren't turning into goo, nor are they healing the injuries from life.
Could be only their skin is rotting.
guywithnicehair:
2. Why do zombies only eat living flesh? One would think that a group of less than semi-intelligent creatures would eat anything and everything that they can, even rotting/dead flesh. My point being if a zombie apocalypse were to happen why wouldn't they eat each other during and after eating everyone still living? Essentially some survivors could stay hidden until all of the zombies ate each other into nonexistence.
Probably some sort of pack mentality.
guywithnicehair:
3. Why don't we see the survivors affected by the smell of a mass of rotting flesh? I have to admit I've not seen every zombie movie, but I've not see one movie where all any of the characters are bent over vomiting because of the stench coming from several hundred if not thousand corpses shambling towards them.
Could be that their revulsion is supressed by fear. And moving corpses wouldn't smell quite as bad as stagnant corpses.
guywithnicehair:
4. How does a virus cause a hive mind effect on the reanimated cadavers, a non-intelligent organism, creating a mass brain among dead flesh? I know that it's possible in nature, locusts are an example of that, but dead brains + dead brains, even on a massive scale, does not equal a massive super brain. So a group of zombies should not be able to coordinated large scale attacks on hideouts of living tissue. Nor should they work at all with each other, if their brain is capable of keeping it alive by eating, it's also going to fight for food; and therefore zombies would fight each other for food, us.
Very few zombie concepts have a hive mind, the Flood is the only one I can think of. They just coordinate out of some basic instinct I assume.
guywithnicehair:
5. How does a zombie, a dead body reanimated, have a greater ability to smell, or even a sixth sense to detect blood/living flesh then it had previously in life?
I've never seen this phenomenon
guywithnicehair:
6. How do zombies continue to eat? A normal person can only eat so much before becoming fatigued and sluggish, and the human stomach can only hold a finite amount. If zombies have a higher metabolism then, when and how did they get it? A virus that simply reanimates dead flesh could not also reorganize the human body into super killing eating machines.
I don't see zombies really eating that much, and it probably comes out.
guywithnicehair:
7. Why do zombies shamble, crawl, and overall move slowly, (in most zombie movies), if the body was an Olympic sprinter, then became a zombie, they it still has the ability to be an Olympic sprinter. If it's because of muscle degeneration the how do they move at all or eat for that matter?
Ok, I've had a few questions for a while about Zombies.
1. I can understand being infected by some kind of virus or biological phenomena, but why do they usually decompose only to the point of being disgusting and no further? Let me explain using Resident Evil as an example, the people that were killed by the fire extinguishing system, (I don't know how it is spelled), that sucks all oxygen out of the air killing the fire and any people, those people were semi rotted if I remember right. Also the lock down wasn't active for long before the team arrived to investigate and therefore not enough time for decomposition of that stage. In zombie movies where zombies have been active for a while, the zombies aren't turning into goo, nor are they healing the injuries from life.
2. Why do zombies only eat living flesh? One would think that a group of less than semi-intelligent creatures would eat anything and everything that they can, even rotting/dead flesh. My point being if a zombie apocalypse were to happen why wouldn't they eat each other during and after eating everyone still living? Essentially some survivors could stay hidden until all of the zombies ate each other into nonexistence.
3. Why don't we see the survivors affected by the smell of a mass of rotting flesh? I have to admit I've not seen every zombie movie, but I've not see one movie where all any of the characters are bent over vomiting because of the stench coming from several hundred if not thousand corpses shambling towards them.
4. How does a virus cause a hive mind effect on the reanimated cadavers, a non-intelligent organism, creating a mass brain among dead flesh? I know that it's possible in nature, locusts are an example of that, but dead brains + dead brains, even on a massive scale, does not equal a massive super brain. So a group of zombies should not be able to coordinated large scale attacks on hideouts of living tissue. Nor should they work at all with each other, if their brain is capable of keeping it alive by eating, it's also going to fight for food; and therefore zombies would fight each other for food, us.
(Ignore this question please, I'm leaving it here just so people know it was here, thanks for the corrections.)
5. How does a zombie, a dead body reanimated, have a greater ability to smell, or even a sixth sense to detect blood/living flesh then it had previously in life?
6. How do zombies continue to eat? A normal person can only eat so much before becoming fatigued and sluggish, and the human stomach can only hold a finite amount. If zombies have a higher metabolism then, when and how did they get it? A virus that simply reanimates dead flesh could not also reorganize the human body into super killing eating machines.
7. Why do zombies shamble, crawl, and overall move slowly, (in most zombie movies), if the body was an Olympic sprinter, then became a zombie, they it still has the ability to be an Olympic sprinter. If it's because of muscle degeneration the how do they move at all or eat for that matter?
If you have questions about zombies feel free to ask, but I'm more interested in the answers. I hope that people will not take this as an attack on zombies and/or zombie movies. This is not, I am not against the making of or the previously made zombie movies, games, or anything else. I am simply curious about the anatomy of zombies, how do they work? Or how would they work in reality? I'm trying to be serious with this, so I would prefer serious answers please and thank you. Think of this as a scientific discussion.
EDIT: Ok I was wrong, zombies have a pack mentallity, not a hive mind I apologize for the mix up. Oh, and feel free to post your own questions. (and I fixed the question mark that was on the begining statement)