Can zombies die by starvation?
I live in the Rockies, a very HARD place to access if you don't use roads.
So this got me thinking - if you had Zeds shambing around coming from let's say, Vegas to the Western slope (approx 750 miles across desert and then high mountain country), there is going to be a point where they start running out of humans to munch on.
Slow moving Zeds are not going to be catching snakes and rabbits along the way. A runner might snag something, but it is going to be few and far in between.
So, what happens like 500 miles out into the desert? Do they start decomposing fast under the desert sun and 100+ temperatures? Can they sustain themselves for long periods of time from feeding to feeding?
Would they try catching bugs to eat? Are they that fast? Would they start eating each other?
I'd like to hear ideas, theories, your thoughts.
Tags: decomposing, starving, zombies
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Permalink Reply by Revolver on -
nope, they just herbinated while they're out of stock for food !
why they can't die ? cuz they're fuckin' zombies, maam !
but maybe if the virus are starving too and without any food it'll devour the zombie's host body for good !
yup, then you can say that zombie can die by starvation !
boink.....boink....boink !!!
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Permalink Reply by Tori Luve on -
well, you look at the body as decomposing dead tissue. At some point, skin, etc is just going to rot off. Especially at high temperatures, like in the desert (where this all started according to the timeline)
So, you'd have Zeds wandering around the desert, catching a few animals or bugs here and there, but not coming into contact with the living for hundreds of miles that would take weeks/months for a slow moving Z to cross.
Plus, you'd have carrion feeders like buzzards, magpies, coyotes, etc that might snatch a bite or two off the Z while it was moving along. I have seen flocks of crows attack and kill rabbits out here and even small dogs.
And, if they just stopped when out of food in a hybernating state, they'd rot even faster.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin M Jares on -
Well it depens on what the virus does to the bodys. Some movies have them decopose into an embaling type of jelly on the inside which perserves the outer body.
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Permalink Reply by Andy Creek on -
Also, some incarnations of the virus (solanum, namely) have all carrion-eating animals and most decomposing bacteria and the such staying away from Zack. Plus (and I don't mean this in any insulting way at all), think. If vultures and crows did feed on Zack, he would have an army of birds following him at all times. In addition, I don't think he'd last more than a couple of days in some environments.
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Permalink Reply by Andy Creek on
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Revolver, viruses don't need to eat. They're viruses. Eating is something animals and some plants do. Viruses don't have a digestive system at all, nor do they need one.
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Permalink Reply by christopher scott on -
they can't die from starvation infact it only makes them mad.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Salter on -
Personally I think desert temps would just dry them up untill they became like mummies (possibly where the story of mummies coming back to life started) they might still be "alive" but the body would be too dessicated to move and eventually the virus would die. The inverse would apply in the tropics where even if the virus could slow down the decay the moist humid conditions would prevail and they would eventually rot to the point of loosing limbs and therefore mobility. (watch where you walk in the rain forest, those heads can still snap at you)
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Permalink Reply by Votolom on -
well i had to look this up becoues i wanted to know but it we are talking about a virus then it would have to have a long life cycle beouces a virus needs living cells to reproduce and in the proces kills the cell it uses. so a persone geting infected and in the proces of dieing there is a huge rapid reproduction of the virus in the body witch is then animated by the virus to spread to a new host. eventuly the virus is going to die out in a fully dead corps. and weather or not the zombie becumes unative after that is unknow in a givin situation. but geting malled to death by a no longer infetias zombie is little comfert if your dead. so to the origanal question is zombies are to stay infectious (I.E. be alive) then yes they would need to eat to keep reprodusing living cellls for the virus to reprodues in.
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Permalink Reply by Alex Nichols on -
Biology is the answer here. With enough time, the zeds bodies will begin to break down and slowly fall apart. Cause once a person is infected with the virus, its slowly and sometimes rapidly decomposes the body. The virus needs fresh host in order to survive. That is what the virus wants is in a sense "fresh meat". So time is the essecene. Enough time and the zeds will decompose.
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Permalink Reply by Ami on -
I'm pretty sure they wont starve as from decomposing many may have lost much of their internal organs and would not be able to decompose foods eaten. I think that despite their instict to feed it is not a need for survival. On the case of what would happen in a sever lack of things to feed on I believe they would go into a state of sleep, a trance like state where they basically stop where they are, drop/fall possibly and stay in that motionless state until the scent/sight of fresh meat reaches their senses and triggers instictive movement again.
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