I think the history of the Zombie Zoo is fascinating.
It all began with an actress named Emma Watson. I'm not sure if you've heard of her. She was a British actress and was in the Harry Potter films. I'm sure you've heard of those.
Anyway, in the first days of the Zombie outbreak; people found her walking around. This one family was about to shoot her in the head. Then the youngest kid screamed. "No, that's Hermione!"
The father said it didn't matter. She wasn't Hermione any more. But then a crowd had formed, and the mob was not at all in support of killing her.
Someone had the idea of capturing her. They did that and locked her in a room.
Eventually they turned her into an exhibit. Then a few years after the zombie war, it was revealed that the zombie wasn't Emma Watson after all. It was just someone that looked like her. What happened is that someone found the REAL Emma Watson zombie. She had been locked in a room in a mansion for over a decade.
So now at the zoo they have the real Emma Watson and the fake Emma Watson. They're in the same enclosure together.
There's a bunch of other celebrities as well. Adam Levine. He was a musician. Bill Gates. He was this really rich guy.
Who else?
Oh. Andrew Lincoln. He was a British actor. Ironically he had starred in a zombie TV show. But in the show he wasn't a zombie.
Real life had handed him a different role. It's too bad. He was quite handsome. Although if he hadn't been a zombie, he'd be 101 years-old now.
There's some people who are working on a cure for the zombie condition. They want to reverse it. Then we'd have all these celebrities back as their old selves. It would be kind of cool in a Rip Van Winkle type way. But I think it's a bit far-fetched.
I don't think the scientists have gotten very far.
I read an editorial that talks about how it would be really hard for all the people who killed zombies. How would they feel knowing that they could have saved their daughter, son (or whatever) instead of shooting them in the brains?
It would probably be very hard…depressing.
I've read some statistics. If you add the zombies in the five zombie zoos worldwide to those being studied by scientists there are about 750 captured zombies out there. About 200 originated in the first years of the outbreak. Four-hundred were taken during the war. Then the rest were taken after that. Twenty have been captured since I was born.
On top of that, there are the zombies that are being kept illegally and secretively. Who knows how many that is....
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For my seventeenth birthday I might go to the zombie zoo in Orlando.
Mandy (my friend) is really against the whole thing. She says it's cruel.
My argument is that the zombies don't have feelings. They don't care.
All they want in life is to eat.
Mandy says that's the point. They DON'T eat at the zoo.
They're not starving, though. Zombies don't have to eat. They can go years and years and years without eating.
She says it's cruel to have the zoo, because they can smell all the humans. That makes them hungry, and they can't do anything about it.
I guess it is kind of mean.
I don't know.
I read that there's a group that's pushing the idea that the zombies should be fed. They want to feed them newly deceased volunteers. The volunteers wouldn't volunteer to die. They would just indicate that when they do die (of natural and/or nonzombie related causes) their bodies be donated.
Zombies prefer to eat living humans; but they'll settle with very (VERY) recently deceased humans.
One of the arguments against it is that the zombies could create new zombies. Then the zookeepers would have to shoot the new zombies in the head.
It has happened. I've read that there have been cases where a zombie bit someone who was dead and then that person reanimated.
I'm thinking, though….why kill the new zombie? Just add to the zoo collection. Although I guess some people would be okay being zombie food but not okay being a zombie.
There's been lots of studies about zombie personality and memory. You might have read some of them.
I've read a lot of them.
I don't know what to think really.
There's been a few studies indicating that zombies have memories of their lives. I'm sure you've heard the story of Sheryl Moplex. It was done in the 2040's. She was one of the zombies that had been captured in the war. Using her wallet, they had been able to trace her origins. Then in the 2040's, they showed her video of her family. They interchanged it with video of strangers. When Sheryl saw her family, her moaning would change significantly. There was a sadness to it…a longing.
I've seen video of the study. It gave me goosebumps.
Other studies, though, haven't been able to replicate it.
In the 2060's, there was a group of scientists who tried to teach some zombies the alphabet. It didn't work.
A few years ago there was a viral video of a zombie who could say his name and hum The "Star Spangled Banner". It ended up being a hoax. The guy wasn't really a zombie. He was faking it.
Mandy (my friend) is really against the whole thing. She says it's cruel.
My argument is that the zombies don't have feelings. They don't care.
All they want in life is to eat.
Mandy says that's the point. They DON'T eat at the zoo.
They're not starving, though. Zombies don't have to eat. They can go years and years and years without eating.
She says it's cruel to have the zoo, because they can smell all the humans. That makes them hungry, and they can't do anything about it.
I guess it is kind of mean.
I don't know.
I read that there's a group that's pushing the idea that the zombies should be fed. They want to feed them newly deceased volunteers. The volunteers wouldn't volunteer to die. They would just indicate that when they do die (of natural and/or nonzombie related causes) their bodies be donated.
Zombies prefer to eat living humans; but they'll settle with very (VERY) recently deceased humans.
One of the arguments against it is that the zombies could create new zombies. Then the zookeepers would have to shoot the new zombies in the head.
It has happened. I've read that there have been cases where a zombie bit someone who was dead and then that person reanimated.
I'm thinking, though….why kill the new zombie? Just add to the zoo collection. Although I guess some people would be okay being zombie food but not okay being a zombie.
There's been lots of studies about zombie personality and memory. You might have read some of them.
I've read a lot of them.
I don't know what to think really.
There's been a few studies indicating that zombies have memories of their lives. I'm sure you've heard the story of Sheryl Moplex. It was done in the 2040's. She was one of the zombies that had been captured in the war. Using her wallet, they had been able to trace her origins. Then in the 2040's, they showed her video of her family. They interchanged it with video of strangers. When Sheryl saw her family, her moaning would change significantly. There was a sadness to it…a longing.
I've seen video of the study. It gave me goosebumps.
Other studies, though, haven't been able to replicate it.
In the 2060's, there was a group of scientists who tried to teach some zombies the alphabet. It didn't work.
A few years ago there was a viral video of a zombie who could say his name and hum The "Star Spangled Banner". It ended up being a hoax. The guy wasn't really a zombie. He was faking it.
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