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Where are the animals? Sans Croc attack = missed opportunity


I was really hoping for some animals attacks in this one.

Imagine: Predators (Lions, Hyena, Crocodile) become infected by means of either A)They are bitten by the human undead (they has bound to be some conflict) and they turn
B)Or, they feed on the dead before they become undead.*I see a scene where a croc eats and swallows a man whole who has just been shot dead. The man RE-Animates inside! the crocodiles stomach, and rips itself out of the croc from inside the belly of the beast!

Or, more likely because I'm sure animals will be able to distinguish living humans from undead ones, they feed on the undead who have been shot in the head and thrown into the river, left in tall grass, etc and become zombiefied lions and crocodiles. Sweet.

Maybe even zombie lions, or hyena's or crocodiles. Think about it. They are natural man eaters...in Africa statistically 3 people die every day by crocodile attack on the entire continent. And those are just the ones reported! If you can wrap your head around the fact that there are hundreds if not thousands of villages with NO contact to the outside world and live , subside on the river for their life and you will begin to grimly realize that we are NOT number one on the food chain in Africa. Just because your white, doesn't make you any less appealing to a lion or crocodile either; plenty of vacationers, old big game hunters, explorers, settlers and a handful of Peace Corpse volunteers on are the notoriously long list of humans who have been eaten (humans of note). Not to say the average African who dies filling her/his water jug or bathing in the river by crocodile attack are not 'of note' either...because they are just as of note as you and I...they simply do not make the list because A)no one was there to see them die, aka found shoes on bank, etc B)they died in a village or area where records are not taken of how many humans are eaten each year or C)no one but their own families and God cares for or about them the victims of past and future African crocodile attacks.

A crocodile zombie attack would have been too good to miss. I guess that's why , they missed it; by not even attempting it.

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Distracting and implausible. Unless non-traditional superpowers are involved, there wouldn't be much left of a zombie after it tried to attack a crocodile, lion or hippo. I'm glad zombie movies generally ignore animals.

Others have already mentioned that large dangerous animals are not as ubiquitous in Africa as they appear on TV.

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I'm thinking along the lines of why zombies don't attack zombies.....They smell the decay of death. I think even most animals that are carrion eaters take fresh if they can.

I also think that animals probably would be immuned to anything in human blood that causes them to be zombies...Like it only effects our species.

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Oh....How about big zombie apes of all kinds? Hell....You couldn't even feel safe up high

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This type of question is all over this board. The big African animals people think of are almost entirely in East and South Africa. This was shot in the almost-Sahara region of West Africa which is far away.

Issue #2: Even if they'd shot this in Tanzania, the budget wouldn't allow zombie-animal fights or zombie animals. Too expensive.

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