Do zombies poop?

[Aoi Magi]

First a little backstory, I am supposed to finish up a report as soon as possible now, after I stayed up the entire night to finish the project, and the report is supposed to be my boss's job, not mine. So between my daily plans to murder him and turn him into my undead slave, and vorlon's thread, I had this sudden thought, do zombie's poop? After all, they keep trying to eat people constantly, so where do they store all that meat? Every zombie infested city is generally shiny and spotless, so they definitely don't poop outside, but I don't expect them to have the decency to visit the loo after each undigested meal. But even if they did, who the f*** cleans up after them? Cause after a few weeks, I'd expect the survivors to either wear vader-helmets or die due to sheer stench... ah this is so confusing.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If zombies are autocoprophagic, you wouldn't expect to see zombie poo. Granted, this doesn't establish that zombies don't poop, just a possible explanation as to why - if they do - you don't see it, and it obviates the clean-up problem.

Boru

[Aoi Magi]

If zombies are autocoprophagic, you wouldn't expect to see zombie poo.  Granted, this doesn't establish that zombies don't poop, just a possible explanation as to why - if they do - you don't see it, and it obviates the clean-up problem.

Boru

hmm but if that were the case then the meat is replaced with poop so they still will run out of space, so how do they keep eating survivor after survivor?

PS: You made me google a word, damn you

[Cato]

I love this forum. I can't imagine another environment where I increase my vocabulary reading about zombie poop (autocoprophagy).

[Mermaid]

I bet the bathroom would be toxic for hours if that were the case.

[Aoi Magi]

I bet the bathroom would be toxic for hours if that were the case.

Correct, so they don't poop in bathrooms either... so what do they do with all that meat?

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

Easy.
1.Zombies can't go out in the sunlight because they run the risk of getting burned to death.
2.They go hunting at night.

So even though the city looks clean it's not.
When the cameras show the city they show it in the morning, they show places sunlight can get easily to. They don't show you dark places. Because since those places are dark you can't see much anyway.

So my theory is that zombies poop in the morning in dark dark places where sunlight can't easily get to and hence us not seeing these. The only way they can poop in obvious places like in the middle of the city is if they poop at night. But they have to go hunt at night, so..

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

Although.. Now that I think about it.. Zombies that CAN go out in the sun would be a whole different story..

[Aoi Magi]

Easy.
1.Zombies can't go out in the sunlight because they run the risk of getting burned to death.
2.They go hunting at night.

So even though the city looks clean it's not.
When the cameras show the city they show it in the morning, they show places sunlight can get easily to. They don't show you dark places. Because since those places are dark you can't see much anyway.

So my theory is that zombies poop in the morning in dark dark places where sunlight can't easily get to and hence us not seeing these. The only way they can poop in obvious places like in the middle of the city is if they poop at night. But they have to go hunt at night, so..

zombies are heliophobic?

[downbeatplumb]

Zombies hearts don't beat and so the blood would be congealing inside them and there would be no mechanism to remove the digested material about the body to fuel it or remove waste products. I would also guess that their digestive system was similarly switched off. I see the eating as being instinct and not functional, the zombies seen to swarm people so it is possible that they only ingest small amounts per zombie anyway.