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Ok, time for more questions.
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I will give it a whirl!
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Do your zombies eat meat for nourishment (is it required for them to move) or do they still move, possibly slower, even they have not eaten in months?
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In my rendition it isn’t the meat they need as much as it is the fats and the hemoglobin. They need the fats to power their tissues and the hemoglobin to carry oxygen into their remaining systems. The amino acids and such are helpful but without digestion to difficult to make much use of.
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Do your zombies eat only human meat or will they eat other animals?
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Anything that walks, crawls, flies, or swims.
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If zombies eat other animals can attacked animals transform into zombies also and do they also transmit the vector that causes transformation in humans and other animals?
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No, the virus or bacteria that animates the motor reflex portions of the brain has only adapted to humans.
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Are your zombies capable of using all five senses to find food or just some or one?
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Yes, though this degrades as the zombie decomposes over time. The bacteria that animates the corpse also spawns off some highly aggressive phagocytes to kill/eat other bacteria keeping the host flesh from degrading to rapidly.
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How smart are your zombies?
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Like a rock.
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- Totally mindless driven solely by the need to feed (they will walk through fire to feed)
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Driven by the need to feed and spread the infection. They seek other humans to transmit the infection by bite or exposure to body fluids. The host flesh needs glycogen, lipids, and hemoglobin that it can no longer produce itself.
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- React to stimuli (they avoid fire to preserve themselves)
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No. The animated dead don’t notice anything and will walk through fire or off a cliff to get to the living.
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- Can understand simple concepts like ascending/descending stairs, try to find a path around a barrier to get to food, pushing a door aside to open it
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Stairs, and ladders only if the muscular coordination has not diminished to much. The door knob, latch, deadbolt are ignored by the dead. They will breakdown a door because pain is no longer a stimulus for them.
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- Can they use very simple tools like a hammer to beat on a locked or closed door, operate unlocked doorknobs
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Nope. Cognitive thought is gone.
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- They can formulate a multi-step (6-9 steps) course of action to get into a postion to obtain food
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Nope. See food, chase food, pull food down, eat food, repeat.
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Do your zombies communicate with each other? Is it by simple grunts for simple commands (stop, food here, go around) or is it some telepathic means almost like a shared group knowledge within a certain range of each other (1-5m, 1-10m, 1-50m, 1-100m, 1-1000m)?
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No. They react because another has reacted. When one sees food and begins to follow that alerts the others.
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If they do communicate and are intelligent enough do they formulate plans of attack, possibly including diversions, to obtain meat?
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Nope, no brains.