What do Zombies Eat Exactly?
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My assumption was the virus was extremely potent. It alone is enough energy to bring them back in the first place without them having eaten.Guilherme Zoldan said:
This would require a large amount of energy inherent to the substance.
One theory may be the virus is more parasitic in nature eating the host for energy while pushing it to spread the seed. Maybe this means eating does supplement their supply of energy but i don't think they'd starve quickly and they'd certainly eat each other before re-dying.
but we're on non scientific ground by seriously discussing Zombies, if you want definitives you need to clarify certain lore sets to take from.
It annoys me how there is supposed to be some sort of zombie canon every zombie movie has to abide by. Especially as it falls apart even when you aren't looking at it closely.
If the thing is caused by a virus, the zombie is just another living creature, they require food to eat, stomach to digest, blood to carry stuff around, heart to pump the blood and lungs to oxygenate it etc.
If the thing is dead, shrug and say "a wizard did it".
If the thing is caused by a virus, the zombie is just another living creature, they require food to eat, stomach to digest, blood to carry stuff around, heart to pump the blood and lungs to oxygenate it etc.
If the thing is dead, shrug and say "a wizard did it".
True its not hard science here, but if we are going for virus zombies its science fiction so it needs to at least make some sense. The parasite virus makes sense, but I think it still feeds on the flesh that the zombie eats. Although the zombie being dead he has no way to digest the food hmmm...Feylynn said:
In resident evil the T-virus zombies dont eat, they only attack in order to spread the virus, I remmember reading that on a note in RE 3. Do the Ganados eat?
The Ganados are shown to eat, just not have any concern for hygiene.
In World War Z, which is in the same Zombieverse as the Zombie Survival Guide, it is proposed to let the Zombies starve out instead of going on the offensive so that seems to indicate that Zombies have to eat.
In World War Z, which is in the same Zombieverse as the Zombie Survival Guide, it is proposed to let the Zombies starve out instead of going on the offensive so that seems to indicate that Zombies have to eat.
that depends on what type of zombie we're talking about.
if it's just the infected then they actually need to eat otherwise they'll starve (see 28 days later for instance).
however the undead just eat becuase they have a place in their brain that controlls hunger is affected and only eat because of instinct not need.
both eat but the reasons for both are varied.
if it's just the infected then they actually need to eat otherwise they'll starve (see 28 days later for instance).
however the undead just eat becuase they have a place in their brain that controlls hunger is affected and only eat because of instinct not need.
both eat but the reasons for both are varied.
I refuse to site my sources in a conversation about zombies. That's just silly. I can say that zombies survive on Moon Cheese and it wouldn't be any less relevant then whatever the Zombie Survival Guide says.
OT: Moon Cheese, of course. Weren't you paying attention?
OT: Moon Cheese, of course. Weren't you paying attention?
i thing it depends on the kind of zombies we are talking about:
if we talk about the cursed body's, lifted from the dead by an evil sorcerer (or something like that). i don't think they need to eat anything, or brains in the same way vampires need blood (aka there are a million possibilities).
but if we look at the left 4 dead zombie who is an human infected with a virus that makes him go mad... i think he could eat anything. living, dead, vegetable, it doesn't matter cause a body needs energy to do stuff.
in conclusion:
i guess it's best to grab as much food as possible and wait in a bunker till all of the zombie' starve to death, or you could wait till it's winter so all the zombies freeze to death cause they aren't smart enough to find a shelter.
if we talk about the cursed body's, lifted from the dead by an evil sorcerer (or something like that). i don't think they need to eat anything, or brains in the same way vampires need blood (aka there are a million possibilities).
but if we look at the left 4 dead zombie who is an human infected with a virus that makes him go mad... i think he could eat anything. living, dead, vegetable, it doesn't matter cause a body needs energy to do stuff.
in conclusion:
i guess it's best to grab as much food as possible and wait in a bunker till all of the zombie' starve to death, or you could wait till it's winter so all the zombies freeze to death cause they aren't smart enough to find a shelter.
lolDragonsoulq said:
OT: There are [URL="http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly_p1.html" (cracked.com)]a few reasons[/URL] why a zombie apocalypse doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I'd add this to the list.
Well, if you're going by the logic of Return of the Dead zombies (How they eat brains) it's not that they need brains to survive, they just eat brains to make the pain of being dead go away.
Zombies eat whaterver they can get their cold dead hands on. There was once the theory between some zombiefans that since the only body parts of a zombie that need to be in working condition is the most vital "reptilian" part of the brainstem and they cant keep it working due to their unability to heal they need nervecells and tishue to keep it working, thats the only kind of digestion or recycling they are doing.
It is as much nonsense as any other theory about undead because it is a concept that defies science and logic. But i like it because it works well enough for a sidenote in a narration.
It is as much nonsense as any other theory about undead because it is a concept that defies science and logic. But i like it because it works well enough for a sidenote in a narration.
