Zombies: A Living History [DVD]

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Further research presented a gruesome string of events. The Zatypota wasps lay eggs on the abdomen of A. eximius spiders. When the egg hatches and the wasp larva emerges, it starts feeding on the spider and begins to take control of its body. While the transformation does not cause the plant to die, researchers are fascinated by how phytoplasma can bend this host’s “will” to make it grow the elements they require to spread and thrive.

These species of fungus “target” and infect various insects through their spores. After infection takes place, the parasitic fungus takes control of the insect’s mind, altering its behavior to make the propagation of fungal spores more likely. Kino, Carol (30 July 2006). "Jillian Mcdonald, Performance Artist, Forsakes Billy Bob Thornton for Zombies". The New York Times . Retrieved 6 May 2009. The first “zombie” had catatonic schizophrenia, a rare condition that makes the person act as though they are walking in a stupor. The second person had experienced brain damage, and also had epilepsy, while the third appeared merely to have a learning disability.

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One of these species, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis sensu lato, specifically infects, controls, and kills carpenter ants ( Camponotus castaneus), native to North America.

Romero's reinvention of zombies is notable in terms of its thematics; he used zombies not just for their own sake, but as a vehicle "to criticize real-world social ills—such as government ineptitude, bioengineering, slavery, greed and exploitation—while indulging our post-apocalyptic fantasies". [70] Night was the first of six films in Romero's Living Dead series. Its first sequel, Dawn of the Dead, was released in 1978. Whitehead, Neal L. (2011). Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas. Penn State Press. pp.39–41. When Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infect carpenter ants, they turn them into zombies. The ants become compelled to climb to the top of elevated vegetation, where they remain affixed and die. The high elevation allows the fungus to grow and later spread its spores widely. Moore, Brian L. (1995). Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838–1900. University of California Press. pp.147–149.

a b c d Barber, Nicholas (21 October 2014). "Why are zombies still so popular?". BBC . Retrieved 31 May 2019. However, little by little, the concept evolved to refer to a person that is rendered mindless by a witch doctor, entering a death-like state while still animated, and thus becoming the witch doctor’s slave. A documentary based on the origins of zombies, how to kill zombies and how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Roland Littlewood, professor of anthropology and psychiatry, published a study supporting a social explanation of the zombie phenomenon in the medical journal The Lancet in 1997. [43]

a b Doris L Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean, Duke University Press, 2005 Bishop, Kyle William (17 September 2015). How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century. McFarland. ISBN 9780786495412. Dalley, Stephanie (1989). Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p.155. ISBN 978-0-19-283589-5. A related, but also often incorporeal, undead being is the jumbee of the English-speaking Caribbean, considered to be of the same etymology; [32] in the French West Indies also, local "zombies" are recognized, but these are of a more general spirit nature. [33] South Africa The mid-1990s saw the introduction of Resident Evil and The House of the Dead, two break-out successes of video games featuring zombie enemies which would later go on to become highly influential and well-known. These games were initially followed by a wave of low-budget Asian zombie films such as the zombie comedy Bio Zombie (1998) and action film Versus (2000), and then a new wave of popular Western zombie films in the early 2000s, the Resident Evil and House of the Dead films, the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake, and the British zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004). The " zombie apocalypse" concept, in which the civilized world is brought low by a global zombie infestation, has since become a staple of modern popular art, seen in such media as The Walking Dead franchise.Researchers have used theoretical zombie infections to test epidemiology modeling. One study found that all humans end up turned or dead. This is because the main epidemiological risk of zombies, besides the difficulties of neutralizing them, is that their population just keeps increasing; generations of humans merely "surviving" still have a tendency to feed zombie populations, resulting in gross outnumbering. The researchers explain that their methods of modelling may be applicable to the spread of political views or diseases with dormant infection. [136] [137] Relative Western decline (1985–1995) A young zombie (Kyra Schon) feeding on human flesh, from Night of the Living Dead (1968) Weedon, Paul (17 July 2017). "George A. Romero (interview)". Paul Weedon. Archived from the original on 20 December 2019 . Retrieved 2 June 2019.