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Apr 17, 2020 · A special mention to the cross-subgenre of killer zombie animals, where we can find Black Sheep (2006), Poultrygeist (2006), Zombeavers (2014), Zombie Shark (2015), Zoombies (2016) and Zoombies 2 (2019), among others.
- “Electrocuting An Elephant” (1903) This list is meant not as a grim catalog of animal abuse for its own sake, but as a list of accidental or deliberate harm done to animals in the process of creating filmed entertainment.
- Stagecoach (1939) Although still remembered as one of Hollywood’s greatest stuntmen, doubling for John Wayne throughout the 1930s, Yakima Canutt is also somewhat notorious among animal-rights activists for having invented the glorified trip-wire known as the Running W. In the book Hollywood Hoofbeats: Trails Blazed Across The Silver Screen, Petrine Day Mitchum discusses the horrifyingly simple device in great detail, explaining how “wires attached to the horse’s forelegs were threaded through a ring on the cinch and secured to buried dead weights,” so that “when the horse ran to the end of the wires, his forelegs were yanked out from under him.”
- Ben-Hur (1925) With their whirling, Batmobile-style wheel-destroyers, the chariot races in 1959’s Ben-Hur still stun audiences 50 years after the fact, but they’re nowhere near as dangerous as the scenes in the 1925 version.
- Jesse James (1939) Jesse James was one of the biggest hits of 1939, matching the take of Frank Capra’s hit Mr. Smith Goes To Washingtonthe same year.
- Parasites put pill bugs in deliberate danger. Roly-poly bugs, potato bugs, pill bugs: They're cute and innocuous members of the insect world, right? Sure, as long as they haven't been taken over by an acanthocephalan (Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus) parasite.
- Kidnapped cockroaches carry the larvae of wasps. It's straight out of Hollywood: A quick stab to the brain turns an innocent onlooker into the victim of a brutal assault and kidnapping.
- Ant zombies give their bodies to fatal fungi. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is a pathogenic fungus that preys on carpenter ants (Camponotus) and snatches their body for their own gain.
- Barnacles turn crabs into cribs for their babies. It's a story of crab-meets-barnacle, with a twist. A female Sacculina barnacle (Sacculina carcini), also known as the crab-hacker barnacle, wants to nest inside a crab, so it looks around until it finds soft tissue at the crab's joint to burrow into, leaving its old barnacle body behind.
Feb 20, 2019 · Speaking of zombie animals, those are no longer fictional. In case you’ve been living under a rock or in a doomsday bunker lately, there is actually a zombie deer disease outbreak happening in the US right now. It basically turns Bambi and his mother into decaying mindless aggressive creatures.
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Animals typically avoid zombies out of instinct, even more so than they would regular humans. Zombies have a tendency to chase anything that moves and kill they thing they can get their boney claws on. Any animals around will become either really good at hiding, or bolt at the first sign. Zombie flesh is typically pretty toxic.
Feb 5, 2021 · Dr. Tara C. Smith is an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist at Kent State University College of Public Health. She fact-checks zombie scenes in movies.
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May 9, 2022 · Adding to the cinematic tension is that some zombie movies also—somewhat realistically—portray the spread of infectious diseases. For example, in the remake of the Dawn of the Dead, widespread travel enabled the zombies to grow in population more quickly.
