Zombie animal explained
In fiction, a zombie animal is a non-human creature that becomes a zombie. Numerous types of animals have been portrayed as zombies - a zombie dog appeared in the film The Last Man on Earth in 1964,[1] and an infected dog is the source of the zombie virus in REC (2007). Night of the Zombies (1984) features a scare from a zombie cat,[2] as does Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. A jump scare scene featuring zombie dogs in the first Resident Evil is considered to be a seminal horror scene in video game history.[3] [4] [5]
In real life
While predominantly a fictional concept when applied to larger mammals, there have been instances of insects, such as ants and wasps, becoming "zombies" from a real world perspective. For example, the Cordyceps fungus is known to infect insects and change their behavior before their eventual death.
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Notes and References
- Shawn McIntosh, Marc Leverette Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead 2008 page 58
- John Kenneth Muir Horror Films of the 1980s 2010 p 403 ".. The “cat jolt” scare is given an upgrade, when the SWAT team witnesses a zombie cat burrow out of a corpse's chest."
- Web site: Resident Evil's Window Dogs Set The Standard For Video Game Scares . . 4 April 2018 . 2019-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191207032852/https://kotaku.com/resident-evils-window-dogs-set-the-standard-for-video-g-1824258916 . 2019-12-07 . live.
- Web site: The Memory Card .07: Attack of the zombie dog! . . 15 June 2007 . 2019-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191208134826/https://www.destructoid.com/the-memory-card-07-attack-of-the-zombie-dog--33112.phtml . 2019-12-08 . live.
- News: The 13 scariest video game moments ever . Keith . Stuart . Keza . MacDonald . The Guardian . October 31, 2018 . www.theguardian.com . December 8, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191207032850/https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/oct/31/scariest-video-game-moments-resident-evil-silent-hill-2-tomb-raider . December 7, 2019 . live.
