At Least They're Committed

Appetizing pre-dinner pinging. Names have been withheld to protect the geeky:

TR:

I heard something interesting today about zombies.

they said that zombies would pose no threat to living, breathing humans because as soon as they started to rot, they’d become prey to animals and birds.

so they’d be eaten before they could get to us.

B:

Depends on the type of zombie

TR:

how so?

B:

Romero zombie maybe but a wwZ zombie not so much

TR:

not initially, perhaps, but they were laying fallow for periods of time in which the vultures would have converged on them. even domestic animals quickly turn when left to their own resources.

nature would have eventually righted itself.

B:

Zombies aren’t natural though

TR:  

they’re dead people.

so they’d be “dead meat”

B:

Dead people don’t walk around and eat living people.

TR:  

well, that could factor into “The Serpent and the Rainbow” zombie theory.

I think they were only brain dead to the point that they were made passive

. . . and probably dumb enough to eat other people.

B:

All depends, each story is slightly different

TR:  

very true.

B:

Some zombies bite animals and they turn into zombies

TR:   

but it would be cool to introduce predatory animals into, say, The Walking Dead.

oh, that’s a very good point. if predators ate the zombies, they, too might become zombies.

and that’s potentially worse!

 B:  

Hell yeah

TR:

they’d be coming at you from the ground and the sky.

B:  

Zombie cats, zombie hawks

TR:  

that would be bad. and if they maintained their hunting style, they’d be tough to kill.

B:  

Resident evil has zombie animals

Wolves

TR:  

i’ve probably seen that, but just in passing.

how do you kill them?

B:

Based on a huge game franchise

Shotguns

TR:

oh, nice! Sawed off would be best, I’d think.

Though you’d have to let them get in closer, you could get more at once.

Yes, typical.