Are zombies smart?

In “Izombie” the zombies are quite intelligent. Their intelligence is shown many times in Marvel Zombies, as the remaining heroes can speak, retain memory and characteristics of their previous life, and even construct a device to magnifiy their inherited powers to defeat Galactus.
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Does zombies have a brain?

The zombies always respond by fighting because another critical part of the brain, the ventromedial hypothalamus, which tells you when you've eaten enough, is broken. The brain's frontal lobes, responsible for problem-solving, are devoured by the virus, so zombies can't make complex decisions.
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Do zombies have a weakness?

They tend to have disgusting looking teeth, and lots of dead skin.... Consensus zombies have only one weak spot: The brain. You must attack the brain. There is no other way to bring them down.
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Do the zombies get smarter in the walking dead?

The walkers are more intelligent in season 1 because of a change of showrunners. As for an actual explanation, the walkers decay more and forget things.
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Are zombies weak or strong?

A very fresh zombie will be stronger than a normal person, somewhere around twice strong based on extreme stress hysterical strength response. However their strength will decline very fast, within hours it will barely be able to move.
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Do zombies run fast?

Max Brooks' book The Zombie Survival Guide, a tongue-in-cheek tutorial for surviving the living dead, notes, “Zombies appear to be incapable of running. The fastest have been observed to move at a rate of barely one step per 1.5 seconds.”
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How can zombies hear?

“Tiny hairs in the ear pick up sound waves and translate them into electrical impulses that the brain can understand. Without functioning nerves, a zombie would no more be able to hear than it would be able to stand, walk, grab or bite.”
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Why do walkers need to eat?

The walkers are dead, they do not need to eat nor do their intestines work. If you are going to accept that living-dead zombies are possible you have to suspend your disbelief. That said, there are some analogues to the real world with parasites.
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Why can Walkers talk now?

The very end of tonight's Walking Dead introduces a huge twist - walkers that talk! Well, not exactly. These "talking" walkers are not really what they appear to be, and are actually the new season 9 villains - a group of people who live among the walkers called the Whisperers.
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Do walkers think?

The 'Walkers' are always shown to not have any intelligence or memory of having been human. This is for all seasons except the very first one. In the very first scene of Season One, Episode One, we see a little zombie girl stop to deliberately pick up a teddy bear from the ground.
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Can zombies go in water?

Bob Bankard of philyburb.com argues that “water remains a safe boundary against decomposing bone-biters.” Other sources, however, suggest avoiding shallow water in the event of a zombie attack, as zombies do enter water and can remain underwater indefinitely. (Deep water is okay – zombies are too stupid to swim).
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Can zombies swim?

“Zombies can't swim,” executive producer Dave Erickson said at the AMC series' PaleyFest panel on Saturday.
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What are zombies attracted to?

The zombies are cannibals.
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  • As in humans, sight, smell, and hearing.
  • Particularly attracted to the smell of blood and the pheromones in sweat.
  • Their sense of smell can be overpowered by chemicals with a strong scent, ie perfumes or alcohol.
  • Alcoholic drink may either disguise humans or repel 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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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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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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Do 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 the walkers evolve?

Spoilers for The Walking Dead comics follow. Just because the leader of The Walking Dead is gone doesn't mean that bad guys will stop coming to the AMC series.
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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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What happens to walkers if they don't eat?

When they have no food for a long time, and their stomach starts eating itself, and the brain doesn't have enough energy, the zombies will die.
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What do zombie actors eat?

The walker actors on The Walking Dead are eating BBQ

"All the feasting scenes, anytime someone's eating guts, we use barbecue," Nicotero said. "We soak it in edible fake blood. Sometimes we'll use cooked sausage.
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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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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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