Posted: 2/25/2009 5:29:41 AM EDT
| As my girlfriend and I were laying in bed this morning, she was asking if I finally had enough ammo for when the zombies come (and no, I can never have enough), but she brought up a valid question. Do zombies poop? You see them eating people all day, but where does it go?? |
| I seem to recall that, according to the Zombie Survival Guide, studies showed that consumed human remains would slowly fill up the entire digestive tract (bear in mind, no actual digestion was occuring). Eventually the excess will start to be pushed out of...well, the exit...simply due to the fact that there is no where else for it to go. |
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I seem to recall that, according to the Zombie Survival Guide, studies showed that consumed human remains would slowly fill up the entire digestive tract (bear in mind, no actual digestion was occuring). Eventually the excess will start to be pushed out of...well, the exit...simply due to the fact that there is no where else for it to go. +1. Remember true undead zombies have no internal organ functions. No pulse, don't breathe, no blood circulation, so no normal digestion. What I believe would be most likely to happen is their stomach lining would rip and the food would just start to pack their torso. |
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I seem to recall that, according to the Zombie Survival Guide, studies showed that consumed human remains would slowly fill up the entire digestive tract (bear in mind, no actual digestion was occuring). Eventually the excess will start to be pushed out of...well, the exit...simply due to the fact that there is no where else for it to go. +1. Remember true undead zombies have no internal organ functions. No pulse, don't breathe, no blood circulation, so no normal digestion. What I believe would be most likely to happen is their stomach lining would rip and the food would just start to pack their torso. They are both right. Most zombies more than a few weeks old would probably have eaten their fair share. So most zombies will have abnormally large abdomens, which will on the plus side make them easy to distinguish between friend and foe. Also it will make it just that much harder for them to walk, carrying a grown humans worth of body mass in it's now ruptured stomach. Realise that MOST remains will ... remain... inside the host, and only a small amount would make its way out various exits. |
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I seem to recall that, according to the Zombie Survival Guide, studies showed that consumed human remains would slowly fill up the entire digestive tract (bear in mind, no actual digestion was occuring). Eventually the excess will start to be pushed out of...well, the exit...simply due to the fact that there is no where else for it to go. +1. Remember true undead zombies have no internal organ functions. No pulse, don't breathe, no blood circulation, so no normal digestion. What I believe would be most likely to happen is their stomach lining would rip and the food would just start to pack their torso. They are both right. Most zombies more than a few weeks old would probably have eaten their fair share. So most zombies will have abnormally large abdomens, which will on the plus side make them easy to distinguish between friend and foe. Also it will make it just that much harder for them to walk, carrying a grown humans worth of body mass in it's now ruptured stomach. Realise that MOST remains will ... remain... inside the host, and only a small amount would make its way out various exits. All of this is the truth! yet another reason for accuracy and fire control disipline and only makin headshots, as gut/centermass shots will be real messy... K. |
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edit: ok now that i'm in. this a valid question and i think the answers have been provided above. the real nasty part is going to be the festering rot that's growing in the Zed's belly. consider Texas in the summer and hundreds of "full" Z's shambling around for several days. along comes some unsuspecting ARFCOM guy and he starts blasting away with the hope of re-taking the town. later after all of the Z's are re-dead he'll need to police up all of the bodies to burn them. this is where it'll be tricky. the nasty disease filled bodies will have bloated even further, some will have burst open. the smell alone will be enough to abandon the town. never mind the medical nightmare that's growing in the Texas sun. no chem-bio suit, no deal. again i remind you of the Hatebreed solution.......... Destroy Everything |
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IBTL edit: ok now that i'm in. this a valid question and i think the answers have been provided above. the real nasty part is going to be the festering rot that's growing in the Zed's belly. consider Texas in the summer and hundreds of "full" Z's shambling around for several days. along comes some unsuspecting ARFCOM guy and he starts blasting away with the hope of re-taking the town. later after all of the Z's are re-dead he'll need to police up all of the bodies to burn them. this is where it'll be tricky. the nasty disease filled bodies will have bloated even further, some will have burst open. the smell alone will be enough to abandon the town. never mind the medical nightmare that's growing in the Texas sun. no chem-bio suit, no deal. again i remind you of the Hatebreed solution.......... Destroy Everything I think you might be wrong, but I'm going off a hunch here. A Zombie's flesh is tainted to the point that bacteria, maggots, and other things that cause decay and disease will not infest it. Does this include the material inside the zombie? I think it might. Lets test! Now to find a live Zombie.... But it does mean that a Zombie will decay much slower then a regular human body. Only due to the fact that they do not produce fresh skin cells do they fall apart. (Maybe something with oxygen exposure of the skin too? I dunno, never was too good in biology class) Most people don't realise this and think a Zombie will become re-deadified after just a couple weeks. WRONG! They don't decay. They just fall apart when their skin can't hold itself together. Does that scare you? |
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I think you might be wrong, but I'm going off a hunch here. A Zombie's flesh is tainted to the point that bacteria, maggots, and other things that cause decay and disease will not infest it. Does this include the material inside the zombie? I think it might. Lets test! Now to find a live Zombie.... But it does mean that a Zombie will decay much slower then a regular human body. Only due to the fact that they do not produce fresh skin cells do they fall apart. (Maybe something with oxygen exposure of the skin too? I dunno, never was too good in biology class) Most people don't realise this and think a Zombie will become re-deadified after just a couple weeks. WRONG! They don't decay. They just fall apart when their skin can't hold itself together. Does that scare you? This is a very interesting theory. The number one ingrediant of decay seems to be the bodys own bacteria kept inside your digestive organs. Without help from bugs or animals (we know they avoid zombies anyways) the bacteria inside a human body can completely decay everything down to your hair. So the questions becomes, will bacteria consume zombie matter? |
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I think you might be wrong, but I'm going off a hunch here. A Zombie's flesh is tainted to the point that bacteria, maggots, and other things that cause decay and disease will not infest it. Does this include the material inside the zombie? I think it might. Lets test! Now to find a live Zombie.... But it does mean that a Zombie will decay much slower then a regular human body. Only due to the fact that they do not produce fresh skin cells do they fall apart. (Maybe something with oxygen exposure of the skin too? I dunno, never was too good in biology class) Most people don't realise this and think a Zombie will become re-deadified after just a couple weeks. WRONG! They don't decay. They just fall apart when their skin can't hold itself together. Does that scare you? This is a very interesting theory. The number one ingrediant of decay seems to be the bodys own bacteria kept inside your digestive organs. Without help from bugs or animals (we know they avoid zombies anyways) the bacteria inside a human body can completely decay everything down to your hair. So the questions becomes, will bacteria consume zombie matter? I guess this would explain why no one ever sees a zombie, bloated with the gases from decaying, blow up. Aside from the boomers in L4D. Now this just makes thing worse, try and stay out of tall grass. Or the upper parts can get ya. 
So after a zombie is re-deadified, what happens? If the remains aren't torched what happens to them?  Do they just kind of lay there or what?
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IBTL edit: ok now that i'm in. this a valid question and i think the answers have been provided above. the real nasty part is going to be the festering rot that's growing in the Zed's belly. consider Texas in the summer and hundreds of "full" Z's shambling around for several days. along comes some unsuspecting ARFCOM guy and he starts blasting away with the hope of re-taking the town. later after all of the Z's are re-dead he'll need to police up all of the bodies to burn them. this is where it'll be tricky. the nasty disease filled bodies will have bloated even further, some will have burst open. the smell alone will be enough to abandon the town. never mind the medical nightmare that's growing in the Texas sun. no chem-bio suit, no deal. again i remind you of the Hatebreed solution.......... Destroy Everything NICE! I'll see your Hatebreed, and raise you a Slayer! Now you're standing in my............................................................................ |