"When a zombie stop to eat another zombie?" Topic

As example: a sleeping victim is attacked by two or three zombies. The first bite is to the throat and soon he dies.
The 2 or 3 zombies start to eat him. According to the theory in a short time the man becomes a zombie and awake.
So what happens then?

He says: "Hey guys!. Stop eating me, I'm your pal now!

The other zombies said…?
"Aghh!. This guy began to taste bad!. Let's go to hunt another human…

Many thanks in advance for your guidance.

Amicalement
Armand

Depends on the speed of reanimation

ok.
But… what happened?
When the "eaters" stop?
Wasn't their hunt for humans for their smell?
When the new zombie began to smell like a zombie?

Amicalement
Armand

Well…it's sort of your call on this – what do you think the right answer is ?

Typically there is some "delay" between bite and turning zombie – otherwise the zombies would NEVER eat !

But it can't be too long or they'd never be able to zombiffie – they'd have been too consumed to come back.

It seems to be one of those areas that we're supposed to not think too hard about – or the whole construct falls apart.

My take is sometimes the victim gets pretty much eaten so what's left isn't to much of a future zombie. It's the relatively small wounds that turn one into a zombie force to be reckoned with.

They keep eating till the corpse re-animates, then they stop and look fur new. Thats pretty standard with slow, shuffling types.

28 days later and the zeds from the film version of WWZ will stop attacking once they sense that their target has been infected, so a bit different again..

A

Any show that features Zombies should probably not be scrutinized too closely, for your own good.

In some zombie fiction I've read, zombies eventually become smart enough to pull the head off their victim before he reanimates so they can feast on every last scrap of flesh from the body.

I seem to recall the original Dawn of the Dead addressing this, saying that generally zombies only consume 10% or so of a victim before moving on, leaving enough for the corpse to become ambulatory later. I'm sure there are exceptions in the case of those mass-devouring moments.

As I love how I state this as accepted fact. "Why of COURSE zombies only consume a relatively small percentage of a victim's muscle mass…"

Shawn of the Dead explores this in detail. The main characters are able to escape through a huge zombie horde by pretending to be zombies themselves.

I suppose you could argue that zombies identify their own through smell or behavior. Maybe, given a lack of fresh targets, they eventually DO start cannibalizing one another. It would certainly explain why in this fiction you still have zombies months and even years later, when they should have all rotted away.

I agree with Coelacanth1938. Invoke the MST3K Rule: Remember, this is a TV show, so sit back and relax.

Thanks for your guidance guys!. (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

We will never really know until it happens…