I need help to understand Zombies.

If zombies eat people though, do they pop?! Surely even small bites of flesh would stack up to requiring digestion and therefore excretion

I always assumed a 'bite' as in Shaun of the Dead would turn you, but if they 'feast' on you while alive then you can't 'turn' as you'd still need to be technically alive enough to become 'infected'? Soo, those who munched are screwed vs those who are a bit chomped on and then become zombies? Is this not the same remit as vampires? Those who are drained are dead. Those who get sucked on a bit become vampires? I couldn't get my head round 'canine zombies' in I am Legend. How does that work? Do the doggos just bite other doggos and then fuck off? And why are there zoo animals skipping around the city? Surely they'd be an easy meal? It's all highly confusing

I think I’d prefer to end up like Liv in I, Zombie - not dead, everything still intact and solving crime! Not too sure about the diet, but am sure I ate worse in my youth after a night out.

I always wonder this too. But did anyone see the First episode of the walking dead where the woman in just a Zombie-torso with arms pulling herself along? So it does happen! I couldn’t watch another episode after that!

What I want to know is who is cutting the lawns? It’s months into the apocalypse but the grass is still short?

It depends on which one you want to believe in.

Personally for me, I am prepared for all of them, apart from if they might be able to talk. Then my whole, wacking their head off with a sword might waver slightly.

Although myself and DP are arguing the best place to hole up, but I am sure he will come round to my way of thinking

But where are the Flies, ants and other carrion eaters?
I’m spending the zombie apocalypse in Australia.
The flies would clean them out in about 7 days, fortnight max.
Even if I have to spend the rest of my life waving flies away from drinking moisture from my eyeballs.

I did like a book series when everything mammalian over 45kg was capable of turning but anything under was a carrier of the virus.
I just kinda like the idea of a Zombie blue whale forgetting to breathe and drowning.

I’ve got a long memory, so any zombie I come across in the future should watch out.

In the Walking Dead (TWD), everyone who dies turns into a zombie regardless of how they die.. Being bitten just makes you very ill, which kills you and then you turn into a zombie. This means that when anyone dies their brain must be destroyed immediately before the person 'turns'

Most zombies seem to have died of something other than a zombie bite but I imagine that as zombies are so slow, most people get away after being bitten and then turn into zombies after they die of the bite.

If you are attacked by a few and can't get away, they do eat you but in TWD they seem to focus on eating your internal organs and they only like live meat so maybe as soon as you are dead and have become a zombie they stop eating quite quickly. They definitely don't eat each other

this explains Trump

Yeah it’s set in Georgia.
A revoltingly humid hot place is summer.
It would just be maggot city.

Also if they are eating they would be shitting themselves.
How can you get snuck up on by something that’s literally a bag of walking rot, stinking and leaving a trail if shit behind it??

Do they ever eat animals?

I always wonder how they move around when their muscles are wasted, how they see, smell and hear living creatures when signals are no longer sent to their dead brains, and why their teeth don't fall out when their gums recede, rendering them harmless.

@Cocolapew in TWD sometimes the zombies are just heads chomping away waiting for a victim

I’ve thought this for years but anyone I’ve ever mentioned it to has acted like I’m a nutcase!

You never see a zombie film where one shuffles past because it’s not hungry; they always try and eat people. So why would they only eat enough to turn them, leaving enough for a new zombie?

but Zombies eat brains. So why don’t most zombies have their heads missing?

Because to kill a zombie, you need to remove the head or destroy the brain. Anyone who's brain becomes a meal won't become a zombie, as the virus crosses the blood-brain barrier and infects the white matter.
You only become a zombie if you get nibbled but your brain remains intact.

Depending on the size of the zombie pack I would of thought for a while they would just be trying to infect other people (since it’s a virus and all viruses want is to replicate)

Once the pack got to a undetermined size they would be eat rather than infect.

but Zombies eat brains. So why don’t most zombies have their heads missing?

Well zombies are people who died but their brains are still intact. So if the brain has been eaten, the zombie can't reignite.