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Post by malikc6 on May 5, 2014 0:39:16 GMT 5
I'm sure all of you know about zombies so I won't bother explaining it all.
Lets say a Zombie outbreak happens somewhere in Africa, and the majority of the population are now zombies and go into the African plains to hunt animals for food. How do you see things playing out? Who will come out on top? Millions of zombies, or mother nature?
In this scenario, the zombie virus does not kill animals.
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Post by Infinity Blade on May 5, 2014 1:07:47 GMT 5
If it's just a bunch of human-sized, slow zombies who are armed with nothing but themselves, I can see the African biota handling zombies quite well.
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Post by malikc6 on May 5, 2014 1:55:27 GMT 5
What if these were running zombies in hordes?
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Post by Vodmeister on May 5, 2014 2:33:58 GMT 5
How big are these hordes? As large as a lion pride? Hyena pack?
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Post by Infinity Blade on May 5, 2014 2:35:05 GMT 5
I still think something like an elephant might be able to hold its own against a fair enough horde. A rhino would have better chances since it's lower to the ground and thus in a better position to gore the zombies.
So I still think they could manage it, but it probably won't be easy. I could be wrong.
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Post by malikc6 on May 5, 2014 2:48:55 GMT 5
How big are these hordes? As large as a lion pride? Hyena pack? Some are in the hundreds while others are in the thousands. |
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Post by malikc6 on May 5, 2014 2:55:50 GMT 5
I still think something like an elephant might be able to hold its own against a fair enough horde. A rhino would have better chances since it's lower to the ground and thus in a better position to gore the zombies. So I still think they could manage it, but it probably won't be easy. I could be wrong. The rhino would have to destroy the brain, for that is the only way to kill a zombie. |
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Post by Fragillimus335 on May 5, 2014 3:50:21 GMT 5
Limb crushing would do the trick. lol. Even a hundred men with normal human agility would be absolutely demolished by a 14 thousand-pound bull elephant. We have no biological weapons capable of harming it! If the elephant knew it had to kill the zombies, they better start shuffling the other way! lol
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Post by malikc6 on May 5, 2014 3:56:51 GMT 5
The only threat the the elephants would be sheer numbers overwhelming them. Imagine well over a hundred zombies swarming an elephant biting anything vulnerable, eyes, testicles or vaginas, ears, and the trunk. This of course could only happen to an elephant that is tired, too old, sick, or injured.
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Post by Vodmeister on May 5, 2014 7:03:15 GMT 5
Crocodiles would do well against zombies for two reasons;
1. They also usually live in large groups.
2. They are stronger and more durable than zombies.
3. They usually aim to bite the head when killing prey, eg. destroying the brain.
I suspect that crocodiles would not be scared of zombies, but instead see them as food.
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Post by malikc6 on May 5, 2014 20:16:02 GMT 5
I think that crocodiles would do better at ambushing unsuspecting zombies. A crocodile on land is vulnerable and a risk of being mobbed and eaten alive by zombies. Not even their armored bodies can stop twenty or thirty of them biting anything that's there. You probably all know this, but zombies see anything that's moving as food and they don't really digest the food they eat. It stays in them until it pops out of their anuses. They can eat and hunt forever until their brains are fully rotted.
I think that birds would so well against zombies. It would make them decay faster. Same with ants and flies. The decomposers would be owning them.
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Post by Infinity Blade on May 5, 2014 23:49:32 GMT 5
malikc6
Is it really? I don't know much about zombies admittedly, and I thought you could kill 'em by other means.
vodmeister
I remember Vobby on Carnivora telling me crocodilians tend to aim for the legs, not the head.
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Post by creature386 on May 6, 2014 1:29:52 GMT 5
Do you mean whole Africa? If you only refer to special regions, I am sure the people in the neighboring regions would take out their weapons and kill them with head shots if they manage to figure out how to kill them (I am pretty sure they would be scared off if such zombies start visiting their territory). If you mean the whole continent, then the animals have a problem. Africa has a population of 1.1 billion and the majority of that number would still be something between 0.6 and 1 billion. As there are an estimated 700,000 elephants in Africa ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_elephant#Population_estimates_and_poaching ), statistically, everyone of them would have to handle thousand humans, which is too much. Given that the zombies are not afraid of anything, they could very well bite everything possible. For lions and other predators, it could be very well worse (given that the population estimates for them are lower and it doesn't take as many as with elephants to kill them). |
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Post by malikc6 on May 6, 2014 3:17:01 GMT 5
I don't know if any of you guys have ever read "Zombie survival guide". They're more realistic than you think.
Zombies aren't magical creatures from the dead like they are shown in fiction. A zombie is an infected corpse reanimated by the virus. It only reanimates the human brain for some reason. Why it eats? We don't know. They don't digest their food since literally the only organ that works in their body is the brain. That's why trying to kill a zombie any other way won't work. You have to kill the brain. Even cutting off their heads won't work since their brain is still in their head. They are also relentless and they never tire. They keep attacking until there is nothing left. They will overextend their bodies to their limits up to the point where they tear muscle and break bone, but being dead and controlled by a virus, they likely don't feel pain (even if they did, it would make no difference.)
An example. A zombie spots a lion and runs at it since it targets anything that moves as prey. The lion fights back and throttles the zombie, but until the brain is destroyed, the zombie will scratch and bite at the lion with all it has until the zombie itself is fully destroyed, or until the lion is dead (highly unlikely that a single zombie can kill a lion though. Same with any other animal. A single zombie would attack an elephant with absolutely no fear of anything. They don't have emotional or logical capacity.
I still think that decomposers would win at the end of all of it. Insects and vultures would be pwning. Maybe even mice but a zombie could just pick it up and eat it. If the zombies are very few in numbers, I can see them getting picked off by hyenas.
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Post by Fragillimus335 on May 6, 2014 8:35:59 GMT 5
We also need to acknowledge the fact that just about every large african animal is 2-3 times faster than a healthy human. If things got bad they could simply run away! If the head is severed the zombie is effectually dead, same with crushed legs and torsos. A brain is worthless without a body to move. In real life zombies would be a minor annoyance, as their bodies would be decomposed to the point of uselessness in a matter of about 5-7 days. It would be: all animals of Africa vs a billion insane/hungry humans for one week, then all humans die. The animals would do fine.
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