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 Suigeneris on -
I believe they go into a state of torpor like a vampire.
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Permalink Reply by Tori Luve on -
interesting concept. so they just fall down where ever they are at and just lie there until. . .?
Wouldn't that make them pretty easy targets for the living?
Would they dine on the maggots invading their bodies and get nutrition from that and move with little spurts of energy?
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Permalink Reply by Suigeneris on
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Just remember Rule #3 Beware of Bathrooms! lol
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Permalink Reply by Wrecks on -
This is all according the the "zombie archetype" I adhere to. I do not think they need to eat, they are just driven to, like a short circuit that only kept the most basic instinct. Blow a hole in a zed and watch them eat the same piece of flesh over and over, until it becomes cold and reeks of their own rot. They cannot digest without circulation, so they eat until they explode and then some more.
They weaken over time for the simple fact that they do not heal anymore. Every time we exert ourselves, pain stops us from overexerting. When we do go too far, we take a few days off and heal up. Without pain they push as hard as they can every time, seeming super-human at first. Without healing though, their muscles tear and hyper extend to uselessness after so many encounters. With a solid enough fortification, you would not even have to clear the walls, since there would never be enough at full strength to take it down. So you can wait them out, just not by starving them.
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Permalink Reply by Shadowslains on -
Zeds can't digest at all. Sounds silly, but the flesh just sits there and rots. And rots. And rots. Some zeds will never stop eating, only to have their own stomachs literally burst on them. As we all know, this will not kill them, as it has nothing to do with the brains. So, zeds cannot die by starvation because they do not NEED to feed, they are DRIVEN to. Their stomachs will just burst out after a while.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin M Jares on -
This is all a lie. Zombies do not need to feed nor are driven to feed. In pretty much all zombies movies they explain that zombies minds break down to just the top instints which are 1 to feed and 2 to reproduce. Now zombies can't feed becuase all the entrales rot away. So that leaves number 2 to reproduce. Now reproduce is defined as "the biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents"." Now when a zombie bites you, you turn into a zombie thus you are the "offspring" of the "parent" zombie. And from all this zombies dont NEED to feed they
NEED to reproduce.
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Permalink Reply by Andy Creek on -
Reproduction is usually done by sex. However, since zombies are caused by a virus, they obviously cannot do that. The ZOMBIE doesn't want to reproduce, the VIRUS does. The zombie is driven by the VIRUS to infect others. Zombies do not reproduce. Viruses and infections do.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin M Jares on
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Good show. Not many think that. But my point is still there they are not driven to feed.
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Permalink Reply by Tori Luve on
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I think the virus needing to perpetuate makes sense. Body is simply the host. Now, one has to ask, is the virus "intelligent"??? (grin)
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Permalink Reply by Andy Creek on
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The virus wouldn't seem to be intelligent, since Zack can't learn. It would make sense for it to allow the host problem-solving, or if the host is directly controlled by the virus, then that proves the virus is unintelligent. Also, the zombie is driven to eat, not bite. If the virus was indeed intelligent, it would make more sense for it to bite, then run away, leaving the person to turn on their own time, instead of driving the zed to eat away at the victim until the bones have been scraped clean.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin M Jares on
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Well if you think about it the host needs to die in most cases to turn into a zombie. So by "eating" the body the new host dies faster and becomes a zombie faster. Also i have never seen a zombie chewing down to the bone.
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Permalink Reply by A Chair on
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Saying zombies do not need to eat is just plain dumb. See, to move you need energy, electrolytes and all kinds of stuff. Mostly, you get these from food. In order for zombies to be able to walk or do anything they need energy and thus need to feed.
Though if you rly look at it rationally, they also need oxygen/to breathe and they need bloodflow to get the energy to their skeleton muscles. Seeing as they have no heartbeat this is impossible, so they can't rly ever exist which is kind of a bummer and a relief at the same time...
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