Is zombies real?

Well-known zombies, or zombies, not only exist in Hollywood horror movies as you might expect. In fact, even animals can turn into zombies.

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Zombie image in horror movies (Photo: LiveScience)

The zombie image plays a very important role in Western culture, expressed in many works of art as well as in folklore.

The classic movie 'The Night of the Living zombies ' in 1968 depicts zombies as deadly cadavers and meat eaters. Many people believe that this film completely renewed the concept of zombies of the 30s. At that time, people saw zombies as people who were completely brainwashed and controlled by the University of Michigan website. explain.

Reference map Zombie made by the Oxford Internet Institute. (Photo: LiveScience)

According to Florida's Museum of Natural History, zombies are also mentioned in Haitian folklore. The ancient word ' Zombi ' in Haitian language means ' soul of the dead '. The ancient Haitians said that many monks used evil arts to make the dead live up through a witch's powder. Legend has it that zombies are a bad element in the community that families and communities cannot stand him / her. And they decide to hire a Bokor monk to turn him into a zombie.

Description of zombie walking gait (Photo: LiveScience)

Even the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has jumped into the zombie theme with a post on the website in May 2011 under the title: ' Prepare your mind: The Apocalypse of the Zombie '. At the same time, the Oxford Internet Institute has reproduced a Google Maps map about how to distribute Zombie-related documents around the globe.

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The zombies " live "

Although there is no scientific evidence that zombies exist, in fact, zombies exist quite popular in the animal kingdom.

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A recent study in Thai rainforests showed that a parasitic fungus of the Ophiocordyceps family invaded the ant's head and controlled the action of arbitrary ants. The ants are manipulated to wander in a drunken state, cross the lower leaf layer and bite the leaves gobbling whenever the fungus commands.

By tracking 16 zombie ants, scientists found that the last bite before ants usually took place at noon, indicating that their bodies were either synchronized with the sun, or with temperature and humidity at that time. Not only deciding the time of death, parasitic fungi also choose the location of ants' death. Often it is the top of the leaf, where temperature, humidity and light are ideal for fungi to multiply and infect more ants.

In addition, scientists have also discovered zombie caterpillars due to a special virus infection. In this virus, there is a type of gene that causes the caterpillar to turn into zombies climbing trees. After climbing to the top of the tree, the caterpillars die and their bodies liquefy, leaking killer viruses on the other caterpillars below.