"I don't see any chance of survival, if animals become infected by the zombie virus. There's no way one could protect against all of the animals. Also what would you do for food, without hunting or livestock?"

"I very very much doubt that animals that are naturally herbivores will attack humans. now yes i is possible but not probable. logically, a cow which eats grass, does not have the teeth capable of eating or bitting for that matter will not be all up in your face trying to eat you. They are herbivores and thus INSTINCT will tell them to eat grass. same with chipmunks(which everyone seems to mention alot) and other small rodents."

"I can't stop laughing at this. In theory its incrediably funny, as if facing down a pissed off bear wasn't bad enough, now he's undead?! However, in reality it would be incrediably pathetic. The only thing that gives animals the edge they have now is their speed and power, without that they have nothing. Can you really imagine yourself being scared of a bear crawling its way toward you moaning, "RRRRAINSSS!!!!" I would have plenty of time to line up the shot and blow its head off.

When sea animals were mentioned it seems everyone was thinking flipper and jaws. I was thinking an undead Moby Dick, THAT would be every sailor's nightmare. But in reality they probably wouldn't even be able to swim, and how would an undead animal be any worse than a living predator?

Any round bigger than a .22 would blow apart anything smaller than a rabbit and those slow moving small targets would be good practise for training the kids on."

"OHHH! You mean RABIES. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we already have that problem. I'd probably treat the RABID (not zombie) animal the same way I would now. Shoot it."

"Oh, I wasn't trying to insult. But the idea of a zombie bear crawling toward me being scarier than a regular bear charging me made me squirt my drink out. Then when I read your post for your zombie(although threatening in human form as they learn) it would just be standard rabbies effect in anything else(agressive, insane, ignores injuries). In fact except for the speed, survivablity, and aggressiveness of infection, rabies does what you decribe to humans as well before killing them.

Rabbies can effect almost any mammal not just dogs. Common carriers in my area are racoons, possums, squirels, rats, cats, and dogs.

Again that's just what popped into my head at the moment I read it. How could a "rabbid"/insane bear be scarier than a regular bear. I've done shat my pants either way. And an infected rat or something small would be no more threatening than a rabid one either(even the possiblity of infection).

Here's a link on rabies, its basically the RAGE virus from 28 days later. As rabies is a zoonosis(it transfers from animal to animal and animal to man commonly by bite). Though if rabies is an good example, then no zombie virus would be very successful in infecting the world. This point being, I don't think any zoonosis plague would be likely, no matter if it raised the dead or not."

"Honestly if it was just a fast-acting rabies that didn't kill you it would be even more threatening. A rabies victim goes insane as he dies but is no dumber than he was before. He can still drive a car or use a gun, he still knows where he lives and that his wife burning the meatloaf last week is punishable by death.

When strapped down they resort to biting, but other than that they may attack you in anyway. The fever causes intense pain, the destruction of the brain cause hallucinations which leads to a lot of anger. They may think that you are the one causeing the pain and not the diesease and lash out at you. Except unlike "ragers" they can still do things they did before, like shoot and drive. That would be an awesome virus, rabies that sets in fast and doesn't kill it stops in the last phase. Your's could even fall under it because after being in so much pain for so long you would begin to get used to it and it would appear that you are learning, but you are actually just adjusting. Though you would still be insane and subject to hallucinations.

Anyway the animals in either form wouldn't really be any more dangerous than usual. I saw a lion get shot 5 times before going down on most extreme videos. A rabid lion wouldn't really get away with more. I read a story about a grizzly killed in Alaska that took two clips in the head before dieing and after they opened it up, it had something like 60 bullets in it. Like I said I probably wouldn't pay enough attention to determine if it was infected or not before messing my pants and opening fire."

"the viruses much like any living things goal would be to become the dominant species on said planet"

"No offence everyone, I havent read all the comments but I have a list on this, feel free to correct me:
- Fish/aquatic animals? seriously? an infection could only be spread by air e.g cold or by being bitten - most likey. Now Fish extract air from water not air, and zombies arent fonna bite fish - theyd be too hard to catch for a zombie and it would just die then if it was bitten.
-DEAD BODIES CANNOT BECOME ZOMBIES LOOK IT UP - no evidence but a bite from a zombie to a dead body would not affect it as the bloodflow is stagnant/ not flowing so it would not go to the brain. The brain is already dead, it cannot be revived.
- Mammals - I live in England so we dont have bears or wild cats, but again i dont know how theyd be infected by bites, unless a zombie goes CQB and a bear would attack too so yeah. Also i dont know how theyd be infected through air as colds and such are caught with 'shared' air, bears and other mammals live in unurban areas so they have clean air except some rodets like rats and domestic animals like cats and dogs.
- thats all i have to say, please reply.;"