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plans for the inevitable undead uprising
negative creep:
No, but they'd die. that's why they keep the fuck away from zombies.
carnivoracious:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 05 Mar 2008, 09:39 ---You seem to miss my point. It's not the fact that it's rotten or moving that's discouraging them. It's the fact that IT'S A FUCKING ZOMBIE. Solanum has been around for ages, flies know they should avoid it by instinct.
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Actually I always wondered about that. There are butterflies that mimic the color of poisonous butterflies so they don't get eaten. HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW TO DO THAT? Think about it! It's not like the butterflies that are getting eaten are warning the others off, nor are the ones that aren't getting eaten conscious of the fact that color has anything to do with being poisonous. What part of survival instinct dictates this? And how the hell do frogs and the like know that those colors are poisonous? I didn't think frogs could see in color in the first place!
On the other hand, I thought that the guide mentioned that zombies smelled different than normal rotting flesh. Perhaps they just dont smell like food?
To answer (or rather speculate) on the why zombies apparantly prefer humans, if we assume that the virus can only spread to humans and that the virus leaves the part of the brain responsible for the hunger sensation intact then we may also be able to assume that:
1. The virus has a way to generate a specific hunger for human flesh OR
2. The desire to consume human flesh is innate and the virus leaves it intact as well
Forgive the Freudian jargon, but who knows what horrific desires our collective ego is responsible for repressing. Furthermore, what psychoanalyst would want to deal with cannibalism. Most don't even want to deal with oedipal tension...
dennis:
--- Quote from: carnivoracious on 06 Mar 2008, 21:26 ---Actually I always wondered about that. There are butterflies that mimic the color of poisonous butterflies so they don't get eaten. HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW TO DO THAT? Think about it! It's not like the butterflies that are getting eaten are warning the others off, nor are the ones that aren't getting eaten conscious of the fact that color has anything to do with being poisonous. What part of survival instinct dictates this? And how the hell do frogs and the like know that those colors are poisonous? I didn't think frogs could see in color in the first place!
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Evolution.
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 06 Mar 2008, 23:51 ---successful genetic mutations are fairly rare in wildlife.
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?
Patrick:
Fairly rare? Tell it to every species on the planet that is still surviving, man.
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