Me cattle!

ScumLord

How likely are zombies to attack other animals? Would a heard of cattle/sheep or pigs attract zombies?

Should we go around opening every fence and gate after the panic to allow them to roam free so they can hopefully avoid any Zs? We can then hunt them down as needed.

Genghiz Cohen

Any noise will attract Zack, some experts say that Z's will attack livestock and animals, other say they completly ignore anything not human.

Letting animals loose is probably the best way to help them survive, but they may be picked off by wild animals, but thats better than Zack working his was through the whole herd.

Kess73

Yeah the animal factor will be a huge decider in whether mankind survives or not.

If animals can be infected, then it is game over, as there is no way to defend against rats, birds, cats, etc let alone larger animals. The animal populations would just be too large if they were infected.

Just imagine the waterways full of Z fish and the like, some floating some on the bottom depending on how much air was in them when they died.

Mice, rats etc all able to fit through the smallest gap in a barricade.


Brrrrr.


If Zs do attack animals and the animals do not turn, then it does provide another source of distractions for Z and could be used in our favour.

Genghiz Cohen

Solanum kills anything non-human, thats why Zack can last for so long, the virus kills all the bacteria.

Other types of infection though...
It would be best to prepare for that, however you can.

Kess73

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Solanum kills anything non-human, thats why Zack can last for so long, the virus kills all the bacteria.

Other types of infection though...
It would be best to prepare for that, however you can.

Solanum is just one possible cause, and it contradicts itself as a virus, so it's potency would be in doubt straight away. Plus it is only relevant in the Brooks take on things.

As I have said in another thread, I don't buy into the Solanum theory. If it acts as it is stated in the book, with it somehow causing a slow down in decomposition to the degree the book claims, then it could not replicate the frontal lobes and work as a brain dead refelexive organism. I can buy into it replicating the frontal lobes and regaining some motor functions IF it does not have an almost embalming effect in terms of preserving the body.






Romero and most others follow different biological and chemical reactions within the body of a Z. Now if we buy into the Solanum take on things, then it will go against many other takes on the Z physiology.

ScumLord

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Any noise will attract Zack, some experts say that Z's will attack livestock and animals, other say they completly ignore anything not human.
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I suppose it could depend on why Zombies would attack the living, do they just attack anything that moves? Or is there some corruption in the brain that makes them focus on humans? Is it just hunger? (problem there is we don't see each other as food so it's quite a leap for a virus to corrupt the brain into thinking we are food) Or something basic, like being territorial. Maybe it's a corruption of the sex drive?

Of course if the zombie has diminished sight and hearing how could it tell the difference between animals?

Setheme

Well, look at movies or books, for example Resident Evil - Dogs were infected.
But a horse trying to eat you would look ridiculous. :rolleyes:
In some movie (don't remember the name..) there was a mosquito, which carried the virus to the human, but it wasn't enough and only his arm died. He had to cut it off. I guess forest is not really the best place to be.

btw. Will older, decomposed zombies attack infected people, who still have a "fresh flesh"? It would be a nice fight.. Zombie vs. zombie!