Monday, June 06, 2005

The Evolutionary Biology of Zombies

From Andy Wood:

A question occurred to me today: Why don't flesh-eating zombies ever turn on each other? It's not as if these creatures are particularly hygenic or well known for their personal grooming habits. What is it that gives them such a discerning palate that they must seek out fresh meat for sustenance, when meat, a few days dead, may be much closer to hand? Normally, when you see them, they hang around in large, frightening mobs to hunt down the living. You would think that some of them would spare themselves the bother and eat one of their own kind, yet you hardly ever see this happen.

Via Catallarchy.

3 comments:

rev-ed said...

The last time I saw flesh eating zombies, they didn't have a whole lot of flesh left. Perhaps it's not "tasteful" to eat oneself. And eating other flesh eating zombies, assuming they have any decent flesh left, would of course be caniballism.

Just lost my appetite. . .

John said...

The last time I saw flesh eating zombies

Is there a story here, Ed?

Unknown said...

The reason they don't eat other zombies is because zombies cannot see other zombies. They can only percieve the living. Read the zombie survival guide. That is why they never fight over food, and instead swarm and grab what they can. Zombies are in no way intelligent and only know 2 things: find and kill.