What do zombies do

In the Walking Dead, everyone living is infected with the virus and reanimates once they die. To provide a simpler virus spread, we decided that it would spread through the solanum virus and zombie scratches and bites as described in The Zombie Survival Guide.

About twenty three hours. Though it could depend on how the person was killed. Harsher deaths could result in a faster reanimation time. A zombie is a mutated organism constrained in a human shell that tends to have an angry and hungry personality.

They do not appear to be very mobile as they shuffle and drag limbs as they walk and they have little to no hand-eye coordination. There have been instances of zombies that pretend to be rotting corpses and then bite unsuspecting people as they pass by as well as instances of zombies using rocks to smash objects which suggest a possible level of intelligence for some of them.

There is no reliance on oxygen, so zombies have the ability to exist in water. They would sink to the bottom of the water body and stay there until they get washed up on shore. Hearing appears to be much better than human hearing which means that silence or at least trying to be quiet can be vital when fighting zombies or trying to evade them. Night vision also seems to be better than human standards which allow them to chase after prey in dark conditions.

They don't have the ability to speak but are able to moan which is the result of locating prey. Once a zombie locates prey, it will continue to pursue regardless of most circumstances and they don't require sleep or rest of any kind.

For example running into barriers or walking up elevated surfaces will serve to delay them but unless they lose contact, zombies will always continue in pursuit. They can decay over time about three to five years which is very good news. Zombies are already decomposing due to multiple micro organisms that are breaking down the already dead body and so various body parts can be affected over time.

To fight a zombie or zombies, the key objective is survival. It is not to engage or draw the attention of more zombies by combat, unless that is the only option.

Zombies have become staple figures of popular culture, and the zombie apocalypse is a trope that features in many books, movies, and TV series. But are there actual, real cases of zombiism in nature? Read this special feature to find out. Whatever you choose to call them, these corpses that rise from the grave to walk the world and terrify — and sometimes infect — its inhabitants are one of the top monsters in popular culture.

The word zombie — originally spelled as zombi — first came into the English language in the s, when poet Robert Southey mentioned it in his History of Brazil. The word refers to creatures from Haitian folklore that, at its origin , was little more than the ghosts from Western folklore. In this special feature, we investigate. Ophiocordyceps is a genus of fungi that has more than species , and mycologists are still counting.

Many species of fungi can be dangerous, often because they are toxic to animals, but there is one thing in particular that makes Ophiocordyceps especially frightening.

One of these species, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis sensu lato , specifically infects, controls, and kills carpenter ants Camponotus castaneus , native to North America.

When Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infect carpenter ants, they turn them into zombies. The ants become compelled to climb to the top of elevated vegetation, where they remain affixed and die. The high elevation allows the fungus to grow and later spread its spores widely. Below, you can watch a video showing how the parasitic fungus infects its victims, leading them to their death. They found that a previously unknown species of the Zatypota wasp can manipulate spiders from the Anelosimus eximius species to an extent that researchers have never before witnessed in nature.

But Fernandez-Fournier and team noticed that members of this species infected with Zatypota larva exhibited bizarre behavior, leaving their colony to weave tightly-spun, cocoon-like webs in remote locations. Further research presented a gruesome string of events. The Zatypota wasps lay eggs on the abdomen of A. When the egg hatches and the wasp larva emerges, it starts feeding on the spider and begins to take control of its body. When the larva has gained full control of its host, it turns it into a zombie-like creature that is compelled to stray away from its mates and spin the cocoon-like nest that will allow the larva to grow into the adult wasp.

But while reviving dead humans may not be on the cards for our race just yet, reviving other organisms is. This can be particularly unsettling when we think that those organisms are… viruses. Giant viruses are called this way because, though still tiny, they are easily visible under the microscope. I suppose if a person who had a tendency toward aggressive behavior got rabies, it would be possible! Dysarthria — is a disorder affecting the motor controls of human speech.

There are a number of causes of dysarthria, but all are characterized by a malfunction in the nervous system that makes it difficult to control the tongue, lips, throat or lungs which then leads to difficulty in articulating and can cause the inability to communicate more than unintelligible noises — quite like the moans and groans of zombies. Leprosy — is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae. Cases of leprosy have been reported going back more than years, and considering a common feature of zombies is their rotting flesh and decaying body parts, it would seem that leprosy and its similar sounding symptoms would be a natural inspiration for such stories!

It is a myth that leprosy causes body parts to fall off, but it can cause damage and numbness which could cause slow, shuffling walk similar to the gait we associate with zombies. The skin lesions that are probably the key characteristic of leprosy with some imagination, give skin the diseased, decaying appearance we associate with zombies. Search All Resources. Browse by Category. Website by BOLD.