Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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FEED spoiler party!

Okay, folks, I've been asked for it, and here it is: the spoiler party for Feed. Anything goes in the comments on this post only. If you haven't read the book, I ask that you not click. If you have, feel free to jump in, ask questions, discuss, or just yell at me. I'm cool either way.

Game on!
Tags: feed, mira grant, zombies
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beccastareyes

May 12 2010, 17:59:28 UTC 7 years ago

Random thought on the way to the bus this morning: a lot of large, charismatic megafauna is doomed. Think about it: humans can't eat pork and red meat now, thanks to any mammalian meat from a large animal being contaminated by active KA. (Most) humans are smart enough to avoid eating zombie cows -- wolves aren't. There's suddenly going to be a large selection pressure to prefer rabbits, and some carnivores (lions? polar bears?) might not make it outside of captivity.

It might be that zombies take the place of 'natural' predators in most ecosystems.

seanan_mcguire

May 13 2010, 16:26:16 UTC 7 years ago

Really, only the smaller predators, capable of breeding before they hit amplification weight, will live. Because even a mouse can infect you.

beccastareyes

May 13 2010, 17:21:56 UTC 7 years ago

I'd imagine you could try to keep animals alive in captivity via poultry, if you could rodent proof the cages so they didn't eat the mice. (When I worked at a zoo, mice and ground squirrels were everywhere, especially in outdoor exhibits.) And people didn't think you were a lunatic for keeping large carnivores that both would eat any mammal they saw and convert, and then would be a nightmare to contain and shoot. (Easier to just keep genetic samples and hope you could use smaller species as surrogates if/when they get around to curing KA.)

It's weird what I think of... instead of worrying about the end of privacy, I think about cute lions and tigers.