Biology of.....Zombies

[Vodstok]

I think i will hold off on the other ones until i am back from the honeymoon. Plus, zombies should give plenty to talk about :)

I will wait because these are subjects i would liketo dedicate my full attention too, and i dont want to do them an injustice by not being around for them for a week.

Just FYI

[Vodstok]

I believe that damage to the "higher" brain my cause death, but if the damage is minor, that woud cause the 'twitchers" in the new dawn of the dead.

One assumption i have made in the "fast vs slow" debate is as follows:

they Can be fast, but only for a limited amount of time. the first couple of days after death, the body would still be mostly intact, and real decomposition would not have started quite yet, makingit perfectly plausible for them to sprint. however, it would be a temporary condition that would deteriorate over time.

that being said, i still prefer the slow ones as well. ill leave my speedy "zombies" as infected, but still living, humans, thank you :D

[Dark_Hero]

One movie I saw not long ago, and was pretty bad, but had a kinda different view on zombies, was "Teenage Zombies"

It kinda mixed the original kind of zombies (Like what Haunted mentioned) with the ones from Return of the Living Dead, kind of.

It was about this mad scientis who wasx creating drugs hat would turn people into zombies, to do not only her bidding...but to create an army of zombies for the US.

I liked it

[Tubalcain]

imo the only zombies that should be able to attack people should be the corpses that are in the morgues, vaults, or are people that are killed by zombies. i dont like the movies where they claw their way out of the earth. anyone buried in the lats 30-40 years would probably have been put in a locked metal coffin, six feet under. no way they are getting out.

[mothermold]

... so much to say.honestly vod,they could offer a collage level coarse on the subject.in my mind zombies lumber or stumble or walk real damn slow if you prefer....they just seem more menacing that way(to me at least)not that running zombies could'nt happen.let's say(for argument's sake)that apon dieing or being bitten...that for a short period of time they can perform feats such as running or bipedal locomotion for that matter.

...then skip ahead to several killings later.they would eventully die(in the very permenant(still)sort of way)rotting to nothing thus presenting no futher threat.

:)

[wufong]

what i never understand about zombies, is how can they see? since eyes decay very quickly. so how the fuck can a zombie see anything?. but anywho,

[Vodstok]

Actual decomposition usually appears to be slowed down in the case of zombies.

Good call, though. Soft tissue is always the first to go.

[Stingy Jack]

I always thought that zombies didn't need to see you in order to know you were there for the eating. I have seen several scenes from films where zombies have been involved in some activity (like eating a corpse, or taking a dump), and a live human being entered the vicinity. The zombies would stop what they were doing, and slowly get up and shuffle towards the living. Almost as if they "sensed" the living through some other means than sight. This would also explain how all the zombies knew there were people in the farmhouse in NOLD, and that there were people in the mall in DOTD.

Also, in the original folklore, a zombie could be stopped with salt.