

A Zombie's eyes are covered by a white or grey film of mucous either covering the entire eye or just the pupil, as the eye is a sensitive mucous membrane and turns almost entirely into mucous when dead or rotting. officers Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine one or two months after zombification. The body also begins to grow as a result of hormones produced by the hypothalamus as a result, the Zombies at the Arklay Laboratory were significantly taller than S.T.A.R.S. Should a Zombie's available food supply be exhausted, they will collapse from exhaustion and may die from starvation or be consumed by other Zombies. Vomiting of acid, sometimes containing blood, is a typical side-effect. Due to their diet, the body of a Zombie begins to over-produce stomach acids in order to dissolve the meat quicker. Muscle tissue is strengthened, allowing Zombies to overpower people in spite of their poor motor skills, but this requires massive quantities of meat to maintain. Due to radical changes in the metabolism, the flesh undergoes significant necrosis, particularly the skin in some cases, bone may be displayed. Zombies possess enhanced strength and abnormal growth.īody processes in Zombies are noticeably distinct from uninfected humans. While they can and will kill other people to sustain themselves, Zombies will also consume corpses, and the bodies of the infected if no other sources of nutrition are available they may even attempt to consume other Zombies. Due to damage to their hypothalamus, Zombies are constantly hungry regardless of how much they have eaten. They can also recognize a door handle and are aware of its functions. The mind is not entirely gone, however, as Zombies are thought to have a fixation with wandering around buildings they frequented before infection. Without human reasoning, Zombies rely entirely on basal urges and will aimlessly wander in search of food. As a result, sensory perception, cognition, motor skills, spatial reasoning, and language are either greatly limited or totally absent. Brain damage is extreme in the neocortex, which is responsible for higher-order brain functions. Necrosis, particularly of the brain, occurs in such significance that Zombies can and have been mistaken for dead.
