I used to love to watch the nature
channel. Shark week on Discovery? Forget about it, the channel never changed. I
remember this footage of a Great White Shark slowly and methodically consuming
massive mouthfuls from a dead whale. The narrator was explaining how the feast
would feed the shark for months.
And then you see footage from the
Serengeti where gazelles are walking pretty close to within striking distance
of a pride of lions. And the narrator again comes on with his British accent
and talks about how all the lions have recently fed. The gazelles know this.
The lions have big fat bellies worth of food, they don’t go charging after food
just because it is there to eat.
Hey, after you have had Thanksgiving
feast with all the trimmings, the last thing you want to do is go sit down and
have meal of three sirloin steaks. I mention all of this because zombies seem
to have a full meter as well.
We have seen zombies that have
recently fed and we have seen zoms that were clearly stirred up and hungry.
Hungry zombies move faster and are more frenetic… or at least as frenetic as
zombies go.
So, I was watching this zombie working
over a corpse (thank God for binoculars). This thing was going to town but I
watched as it clearly ate its fill and then got up and shambled off. There was
still meat left on the corpse but this thing shambled off once its belly got full.
(Don’t worry, Fred dropped it with a well place sniper shot and then put one in
the feasted-on corpse as well.)
If these things have a point where
they will push away from the table, then that means they seem to have some sort
of digestive system still up and running. Is that possible? No heartbeat, no
breathing, no flowing blood… but maybe the whole digestive track is still up
and running. It would cement the theory that unlife could be perpetuated by
their feasting.
Now, as these things do not breathe, I
do not know what their system is doing with this digested meat. But it could
throw a monkey wrench in the Year One Plan. Our plan is to wait these things
out and watch them decay and deteriorate away. But what if feeding sustains
these things? Could we survive in here for more than a year? Would we want to?
Well, regardless, those are questions for another day.
But as I wrap this entry up, I cannot
stress this enough. Even a well fed zom is dangerous. One bite and that is all
she wrote. One bite is all it takes. You have to stop thinking conventionally
when it comes to dealing with these things.
I still really want to know what those
zoms do with meat though. I mean, if nothing happens with all that flesh in
their gullet, then once they get a belly full of meat, they would be somewhat
pacified and they wouldn’t eat anymore… Right? That just doesn’t add up…
Maybe it has to do with why we have
seen a few of them vomiting…
