Why don't zombies attack and try to feed on each other?

If zombies are attracted to non-environmental movement, then wouldn't zombies be drawn to each other? Is that why more zombies come when they find food?

Why don't zombies try to eat each other? Do humans smell different perhaps?

If 'runners' are alive humans with infected brains, why don't zombies attack them? Do they attack them but the runners fight them off?

I would like to know your opinions! I can't quite figure this out...

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Permalink Reply by tom on June 6, 2009 at 1:03am
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Permalink Reply by Jason Valentine on June 8, 2009 at 7:40am
Permalink Reply by JoozBoxx The-Slayer on June 6, 2009 at 2:51am
I think maybe the Zombies attack humans because of (as most of you all have said) foreign smells, tastes, and maybe even language. I think the zombies have a language. I think that the moaning and groaning has to mean something, maybe like dogs bark. And attack when they hear the foreign sounds like a heartbeat, a scream, or just any english. And on the dog topic maybe their vision. Maybe they see humans as inferior. Like dogs see cats. A dog will eat a cat all day, but rarely attacks other dogs. Or like human pheramones (spelling?) released attract them and they have a increased sense of that. - Jooz Boxx
Permalink Reply by JB on June 8, 2009 at 2:38am
Alright Students, it's time for another episode of Zombie Science with your host JB.

Okay everyone, today were going to talk about the art of being alive even after your dead.
The first thing you need to remember, your body will be dead. There is no coming back from this.
So, you want to know why zombies don't attack each other? Well, let's discuss.

If the body dies off, what happens? Right! The blood stops flowing, the lungs stop breathing and you no longer circulate blood around your body. So, after all this happens, what next?

Okay, a little help...the body starts to decompose...the muscles get stiff and hard, body fat starts to drain, blood starts pooling in what ever part of the body is closest to the ground, and nerve endings start to die off. So without any nerve endings, how do zombies feel?

Well, they feel sad...because they are dead...but other than that, they don't feel anything...no hot, no cold, no electric shock, no pain, no pleasure...nothing.

"But JB, if they don't feel the heat from the body, how do they tell who's alive and who's dead?"

Good question, Johnny...The human brain uses 5 senses to determine it's surroundings and all things environmental. The first one we've ruled out is Touch. that leaves...Hearing, Taste, Smell, and Sight. So lets look at these...

Hearing...possibly an altered state due to the virus, creating more sensitive hearing, thus hearing heartbeats...maybe....

Taste...Obviously if they are eating raw human flesh, they don't have any taste, and thus it holds no bearing here.

Smell...It may be possible that they can smell the hormones, or Fear if you will. The "Functioning human body emits it's own smell, based upon the hormones it secretes. Just like that male female attraction, a Zombie may be attracted to a certain hormone secreted by living beings. I think this is the favorite for Sensory controled identification.

and last but not least, Sight...Humans don't move like zombies, and they would have a hard time trying to mimick these movements. So zombies will recognize a poser in their midst. But this doesn't constitute a positive identification.

What I actually think, is that it is a combonation of multiple factors. The sight, smell, and hearing capabilities the Zed maintains within its brain.


Thanks for listening, I hope to hear from you all soon.....and remember, aim for the head, and run whenever possible. survival is key....
Permalink Reply by Jason Valentine on June 8, 2009 at 7:43am
"Well, they feel sad...because they are dead...but other than that, they don't feel anything...no hot, no cold, no electric shock, no pain, no pleasure...nothing."

Do they feel bad when they eat a fat person... you know, like when you eat McDonalds and you know you shouldnt?

Or perhaps they feel zombie love?

zombie with feelings *scoff* ridiculous :P
Permalink Reply by biohazard on April 24, 2010 at 6:43pm
*audience cheering*
Permalink Reply by CORRADO of Dead Road on June 8, 2009 at 6:52am
Runners cannot be considered... It doesn't even make sense to associate them as "zombies" in the make believe world of zombies, there's no room for them. Runners should be separate. It's like calling Frankenstein's monster a vampire.
Permalink Reply by Jason Valentine on June 8, 2009 at 7:48am
It's nothing like that.

Believe whatever you want but you have to appreciate that it's possible. If you subscribe to the shambler zombie idea then you probably believe they're reanimated corpses. The common belief is that the body dies and is reanimated. Then rotting and rigormortis limit movement and cause them to shamble about. If you believe this than you cannot discredit the idea that a freshly reanimated corpse which has neither rotted nor hardened, could possibly have a more free range of movement and speed than an older reanimated corpse.
Permalink Reply by Dan on June 8, 2009 at 12:35pm
True, but most runners are not "dead" they are said to be "infected" (see 28 Days/weeks) Runners are a possiblity, but i do not think they would be as fast or intelligent as shown in films, such as the remake of Dawn of the Dead. They would be faster, but i doubt they would have the coordination to sprint.
Permalink Reply by CORRADO of Dead Road on June 9, 2009 at 10:58am
I agree with Dan, those are perfect examples...
It works if it's infected humans. But not if it's the undead.
It just makes more sense that way.
Permalink Reply by Jessica Eckles on June 8, 2009 at 1:03pm
after a while though rigormortis does dissapate when the chemicals burn out of the muscles. What then? would they just have no muscle function at all or just be less inclined to run like that of the runners?
Permalink Reply by Jessica Eckles on June 8, 2009 at 12:59pm
Maybe the runners are sort of brain dead, making them seem dead to the other zombies and thus making them a fellow zombie. Or it's just possible that the runner's body temperature has dropped as a result of being infected and the other zombies only want warm and positively living flesh and blood.
just a thought.

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