It's pretty much a known fact that our conventional grey friend is carrying some type of infectious sickness that is transferable only by fluid contact.

Now, when someone is bitten, they get on that slide towards death rather quickly, hours, maybe even a day. But when the rest, their corpse is soon reactivated, how or why? we do not know, thats just how zombies work.

Now, humans have pretty crappy hearing compared to the rest of the animal kingdom, and our sense of smell is also rather lacking, we can pick of certain strong scents, but only if they are in great concentration, like a room filled with smoke, or a stovetop cooking beef stew.
Of course, our senses work to their finest when our body is free of infection.

If someone was infected it would be quite possible for the victim to first undergo a series of allergenic reactions, (stuffy/runny nose, clogged up ears, puffy eyes) the bodies white bloodcells are simply trying to do their work fast.

Now, the time in which the victim flat lines to which the victim rises is usually under 10 minuts according to our most trustworthy sources (film), there wouldn't be enough time for the body to fully relaxe, to a certain extent, your body would still be fighting, well, now, loosing the infeectious battle.

So, in short, a Zed's ears and nose would probably be clogged up from an old sinus problem, or congelled zombie gunk, either which way, I think it would be quite hard for zombies to hear one another's moans, and it would be rather difficult for a zombie to smell human "essence" from hundreds of feet away (unless you haven't showered for months, then maybe ;)

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The information in the thread involves the brain stem controling motor functions. I must say, that it seems the most logical process would involve some kind of virus leading to the destruction of the cortex: the part of the brain that controls higher thought, leaving both the brain stem as well as other parts of the brain active, leaving only the primitive instincts of hunt, kill, survive. Saying that they are DEAD is kind of misleading, because once they are dead, they are dead, and some virus won't re-activate the brain. They are just, for all intents and purposes, dead to the world, with no perception beyond their continued hunt. Also, saying they can go without sleep, or that bleeding will make no difference, also doesn't make any sense. If the blood stops flowing to muscles, the cells die, and they don't move, no matter how much a virus tells them to. Blood WILL matter. So will sleep, as the tissues of the body will simply over-strain and die without rest. Zombies, like humans, will need to rest, or they will just collapse without it.

But all this leads to the very unpleasant solution that zombies will be FAST. They will be as fast as they were in life, only now they will be willing to chase you down to the point where they can no longer physically keep running.

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From what I have gathered from the sort of general zombie characteristics they generally seem to alltogether ignore pain or not feel it. Going on the idea that they are possesed of infected by something that causes them to no longer be living and seek human flesh some zombies should have the ability to run. They would be less coordinated but what really prevents them from being able to run other then an injury or decomposition? I think a fresh zombie, one who has just changed and is of middle age should be able to run. Now on the other hand since they ignore pain they possess the capability to full out run for ridiculous amounts of time. Doing so would eventually cause injury in their leg muscles though because they would probably run waay to hard. This would probably be a reason for a once fresh zombie to be unable to run.

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it is very possible because viruses today evolve why cant this one though it may take very long but yes,it could happen

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