Can zombies poop?

Thus, even with a sick brain the zombies would most likely have normal excretory habits, albeit without the conscious sphincter control (CNS) exhibited by most of us living folk. Your answer, then, is yes. Zombies poop.
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Do zombies have to use the bathroom?

So, basically, as far as I know, nobody has explicitly stated whether zombies poop or not, but realistically, they must create waste somehow. Unless they develop photosynthesis or something, that waste will most likely be excreted just like in normal people. Everybody poops, even zombies.
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Do zombies have digestive systems?

Zombies don't have an effective digestive system because of the lack of enzymes and a lack of a means to deliver digested food into the body systems, which is why zombies are always hungry. because they cannot digest food, their stomachs tend to bloat.
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Do zombies get full?

Zombies can't get full. No matter how much they eat, their hunger never dissipates. In his book World War Z, Brooks describes zombies who have eaten so much flesh that their stomachs rupture, splitting the abdomen open and causing the already eaten flesh to spill out onto the floor.
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Do zombies continue to decompose?

Like all living creatures, humans die and our bodies begin to decompose right away; indeed, there's no stopping it, even for zombies.
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How do zombies smell?

They form when amino acids break down and they smell kind of skunky, and sulfurous, and like human feces. Then there is dimethyl disulfide, which smells like rotting cabbage. A related compound, dimethyl trisulfide, smells like an open, festering wound.
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Why are zombies green?

Then, as the blood cells begin to burst, they release hemoglobin into the surrounding tissue. This stains the tissue with a red or reddish-brown hue. As the body decomposes further, chemical changes take place that produce skin colors including greenish-yellow, greenish-blue or greenish-black.
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Why do zombies moan?

A hypothesis put forth by ZRS Member, Gregory Pickman, may hold the answer. Pickman suggests that zombies are able to make noise for one simple reason: they breathe. He asserts that because a zombie is technically dead, it doesn't need to take in oxygen to continue “living”.
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Do zombies pee or poop?

Thus, even with a sick brain the zombies would most likely have normal excretory habits, albeit without the conscious sphincter control (CNS) exhibited by most of us living folk. Your answer, then, is yes. Zombies poop.
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Do zombies sleep?

Zombies are on the prowl at all times of day and night! They are not nocturnal, they are arrhythmic! And insomniac. They never sleep!
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Can zombies smell you?

Zombies may have impaired brain function in many ways, but they do have a razor-sharp sense of smell — at least when it comes to sniffing out living human flesh.
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Do zombies have body heat?

Nope. Zombies are dead, and are oblivious to both heat and cold. They assume the temperature around them, making them in effect a cold blooded creature.
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Do zombies have pulse?

Characteristics. In zombie movies, zombies are almost always: Mobile (able to move) but technically dead, without a heartbeat or other vital signs. In a decaying (rotting) state, with discolored skin and eyes.
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Can a zombie fart?

Zombies Fart When Punctured

Rotting corpses produce copious amounts of gas that bubble up and become trapped under the skin. When the flesh is punctured, the gas will be released from somewhere other than the mouth.
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Do the walkers sleep?

The opening scene shows Alexandria's main crew roping down into an underground military spot where there are bags of army grade MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat)... and also sleeping walkers. They all have that zombie sleep apnea and are big snorers, but they are indeed sleeping which seems kind of wild.
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Can zombies get tired?

Zombies may not feel fatigue, but you don't need to feel muscle fatigue before your body gives out on you.
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Do zombies eat brains?

The modern pop culture Zombie is characterized by feasting on human brains. The king of all zombie films, George Romero never showed zombies consuming human brains. It was not until the 1985 film Return of the Living Dead did zombies consumed brains.
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What does zombies not like?

Zombies hate clowns. They also hate hippies, not to mention zip-lines, penguins, moon penguins, nudists, weddings, sharing, and kittens.
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Do zombies breathe?

TL;DR: No, zombies don't need oxygen to survive. We don't know how zombie physiology works, but we know that they don't breathe. In fact, we've seen a number of walkers surviving long periods of time underwater.
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Do zombies talk?

They can communicate in English or whatever language they used to speak. In extremely rare cases they can form friendships or relationship and bond with humans.
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Why do zombies stick their arms out?

It has been speculated that holding out one's arms pointing forward while doing the Zombie Gait derives from the mysticism connected with hypnotism in the past and the fact that to get a person's arm to rise as if without their moving it themselves is one of the easiest suggestions to perform.
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Why do zombies walk slowly?

The classical 'Romero-style' zombie moves slowly, almost reluctantly. It was deliberately created to give them the effect Romero wanted. Zombies play to the core human fear: the human-looking inhuman thing. They are so like us in appearance, and so different in behavior.
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Are zombies pale?

There is an established pattern of Caucasian zombies being very pale with white hair and (so far) light eyes. However, we've now met two zombies of diverse backgrounds who have no distinct features that identify them as zombies.
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Why are they called zombies?

Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in which a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic like voodoo.
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What color is a Minecraft zombie?

Zombies are easily identified by their green skin and blue shirts.
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