Regarding the TV show possibly the comics there are many instances where the walking dead are encountered eating their fill and one 2nd season where one was opened up and a woodchuck was found in it's stomach. This shows the digestive tract must still work. Where is all the zombie poop? And the smell of them must include dead food from the dead. Wouldn't it fill up their pants because we assume they did not take off their pants so neither their underwear.
If one of the walkers had a colostomy bag does he have to empty it or does it fill up to his throat? If the dead have dentures, how do they chew their food? Also, the same peristaltic waves that move the food through the digestive tract are present in the esophagus when swallowing In the season two episode, it can also be assumed that the walker they ended up cutting open wasn't necessarily in an early batch of walkers, thus there was a good chance that it still had digestive acids in its stomach at the time of death and regeneration.
Thus, when it found and ate the woodchuck, the remaining acids set to work breaking down whatever fell into the stomach. Insofar as the question regarding defecation, I'd say that that's possible assuming that they don't burst at the stomach first. If they continue to consume and consume, it's likely that any additional matter would be pushed down their digestive tract until expelled through that orifice in an unnatural read, unassisted by muscles kinda way.
I have a bit of an alternative answer to this For medical reasons, I ate a meat-only diet for two months earlier this year. It was astonishing how little I needed to go and when I did, how little there was and I never felt bloated at all. I came to the conclusion that most poop is actually created by the consumption of plant sources that we cannot fully absorb. I have since had this confirmed by other people's experiences on the same diet.
Therefore, if a zombie only eats a small amount of human flesh and blood, they may actually never need to poop at all. In the Comics the Zombies Slow down during the winter almost suggesting that they have some type of body fluid going on.
If the weather slows them down physically i'd have to say that they may indeed have some type of digestion system. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? If this was not the case, and a zombie had to actually poop, can you imagine Hollywood portraying a zombie squatting? Too PC… I agree with both the gravity and explosion theories. I think it would depend on how rotten our friend was. The newer the zombie, the more likely to explode, unless the zombie had horrific torso wounds from his making — then all bets are off. Love the head-grabbing headline, Jack! Well, I never! They would have to or, as others have said, it seems that they would explode from the gas build-up.
The father also a zombie is hard-pressed to take care of the child, but he does. I looked it up online. If I remember correctly, its set in a pornography video store. And I am Legend , by Richard Matheson, is often cited as an early model in the zombie genre. FYI everyone that got back to me was certain that zombies, do in fact, poop. So I think we can put that challenging inquiry to bed finally. The other side of the coin, however, is what if their stomachs have decomposed so much that the food falls out of their gut before hitting their digestive tract?
Another mystery to ponder on in this great body we here call Earth. In regards to if they sleep, I think they do occasionally take a mini undead nap time every now and then — for some reason the zombie that appeared to be dozing off in a tank until Rick sat next to him in the first episode of The Walking Dead comes to mind. They poop and fart and snarl and eat. The only thing you note is that they are not dependable as far as work is concerned. They always have an excuse, like I bumped into my food and took a while for digestion.
They also have been known for going to the pharmacy and get tums, they eat them after they eat the salesperson. And Jack I have to say, you come up with the most interesting questions.
Nothing like stirring the old grey matter with zombie issues first thing in the morning. Looking forward to the next conundrum you bring me. Have fun. That is my goal, Vicky. To keep everyone on their toes, never knowing what will come out of my mouth! And that would also answer point number 1. How do these lizard people rule cold climate countries without hibernating? Oh wow, now I will have to ponder this one! Do they poop? I mean, they eat, and yes are dead but obviously there is some body function.
Been too busy stocking up ammo, swords, daggers and food for the coming zombie apocalypse. Do zombies sleep?
I believe in The Walking Dead it was stated that their activity slowed down during Winter months. I would say their digestive processes are pretty much non — existent as well. But does that shit happen for a zombie? Check it out, 3. As God as my witness, I will not rest until this very important question is answered. They don't regenerate, and they're rotting, so they may just be cannibalizing their own tissue for energy, RA.
They don't die if they don't eat, right? They just keep going? Nothing kills them except destroying their brains, so they aren't functioning like regular organisms. Ok, but not all undead are alike. Vampires are different than zombies. I don't know if vampires poop, either.
They might be able to assimilate all the blood, but I don't see the zombies being able to do that with flesh. By the way, I was quite proud of my eight year old as far this topic is concerned. I ran this question by him and he reasonably explained that zombies were not alive and therefore did not poop.
He was eating a grilled cheese sandwich at the time. Ok, this is interesting. But I still have questions. If they continually eat, where does it go? Do the zombies get fat? If they didn't eat, then, and your cannibalization theory is true, would they eventually cannibalize so much of their tissue that they would "die" again? They don't ingest and digest the brains, they merely gnaw, rip and tear. Are you sure about that? I thought they ate them. It sure looked like they were eating a horse in that show The Walking Dead.
RA wrote: 1. As I wrote above, I think they'd reflexively vomit it back up. They would not get fat, as that's a metabolic process requiring life and digestion. You have to digest food for it to be stored as fat. In 28 Days Later, the zombies starved to death.
There was talk of a fever on the show last night, that you get if you are bitten by a zombie. Perhaps zombies have a higher internal temperature, and anything ingested is totally consumed that way, through heat and rotting processes. I'm assuming that the Walking Dead is working with scientifically explainable zombies, instead of magically animated zombies. I wasn't getting a supernatural vibe from the show.
But were they really the walking dead, or were they uber-psychotic and virus-infected, but still-living, humans with an imperative toward cannibalism? It's been awhile since I've watched that film. Well, okay, what is a zombie then? Yes, the zombies in that movie had some kind of infection - but they ate people, and I think of them as zombies. What's the difference between the Infected in 28 Days Later and every other zombie? Speed, Britt. Just like with vampires, every zombie story gets to make up its own explanation for how things work.
So, In 28 Days Later, we have some sort of government virus escaping, I think, creating these fast cannibalistic infected people. I can't remember if they had to die first? I don't think so. But in a lot of old movies, it's truly DEAD people being reanimated by something and coming back to life, rising from graves and such. The writers get to make the rules.
Oh, and there are voodoo zombies, which might not be dead, or anything but in a kind of catatonic state brought about by drugs so they can be used as slaves. My recollection is the 28 Days Later zombies didn't have to die. They were still living people, but amped up on adrenaline and cannibalistic from the Rage virus. So they could starve to death and would eat and poop, RA because they were still alive.
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