The zombie that's closing in on you... he looks hungry. But what sort of palate does he have? Is he a basic carnivore - ready and willing to eat anything, as long as it's flesh? Or does he veer towards the gourmet... the delicacy - does he long for brains and brains alone? One might say, "What difference does it make? He wants to eat me! Neither choice is really all that comforting." But is this the case?

If the zombie will eat any manner of flesh - meat, bones, brains, organs, etc. - then what draws him to it? Is it the smell given off by humans? Is it a pheromone? Is his desire to feast on a living human a means to satisfy his hunger, or does he know instinctively that by biting a human, he continues his species? In either case, he seems to be driven by instinct, not intellect. But what if his sole desire is to eat living human brains? We are again faced with the question, how does he know what he wants and how does he find it? It seems unlikely that the zombie can smell the brains inside our heads, but that does not make it impossible. Assuming that most zombies did not eat human brains while they were alive, how would they know that they wanted to eat them as a zombie, and how would they know how to track down living human brains once they became zombies?

Why does the zombie hunger so? Since undeath presumably stops all normal biological processes pertaining to maintaining the body as a living organism, one would assume that eating as a means or survival would be eliminated. Does the zombie's rotting brain constantly send it hunger pains, making it constantly search for a means to satiate its need for fulfillment? This seems unlikely, given the zombie's disregard for other forms of nourishment. He could sit down with a box of Oreos and skip all that chasing and fighting for a mouthful of little Billy or little Sally. So he is clearly drawn to human flesh; presumably only living human flesh as we don't see zombie's attacking each other. (If we can someday isolate what draws them to the living, we might be able to block their reception of this signal. We might be able to turn it into a chemical agent that we can crop dust an infested area, thus making the zombies turn on each other...)

This is a video of a zombie attack I found on you tube, is it real, you be the judge.