Listen, I'm only on episode 3 of the first season and I've never read the comics, so my questions are based on a few assumptions. My apologies if these have already been discussed here or if the tv show has already answered my problem in more recent seasons. Here goes:
So, it seems to me that the zombies eat the living rather than just turning them if they're in big groups. Like they just collectively devour them. I'm assuming this is because the zombies have some sort of need to fulfill, or they're simply 'after' living flesh, for whatever reason. My question then is why the zombie population seems to be growing so rapidly? They seem to eat the living rather than turn them, I assume it's not because they need the nutrition or because it has some other beneficial effect for them. If anything you'd expect their numbers to shrink because these zombies die off automatically, right? Their bodies seem to deteriorate, and I know this show isn't exactly rooted in reality, but a corpse exposed to air doesn't last that long. Despite the scarcity of living flesh, there seems to be no Malthusian trap or anything at play because firstly the zombies don't require it and secondly they should either die off or in any case shouldn't grow in numbers.
Can someone please enlighten me about some of the issues touched upon here?
Submitted August 30, 2017 at 10:26AM by AngelHairs http://ift.tt/2xN1umA
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