Why don't the zombies ever eat each other?

[Darkmoon]

That's right! Right after you fight Yawn and descend into the basement you can see them eating another zombie.

Was it a zombie, or simply a zombie they used as a corpse like in RE2? You see several dead zombies getting munched on, but it seems to mostly be just pretend this is a corpse.

[The_15th]

That's right! Right after you fight Yawn and descend into the basement you can see them eating another zombie.

I was sure they were zombies eating each other out.

[VirusPunk]

I'm pretty sure they used the zombie models as placeholders for the corpses like they did in RE2 and RE3.

[The_15th]

That's too bad. It was zombies eating each other out all along.

[veronesis]

I thought they were eating each other out in RE1, once you get to the caves.

Speaking of enemies dealing damage to enemies, I would've liked it in Resident Evil Outbreak if Friendly Fire enabled had affected friends and enemies alike.

That was the first thing I thought of too. Right outside that observation room in the mansion. The body gets up and attacks as well after you pass through.

[Stars_g36]

I believe that zombies do not eat the living to "survive", but to spread the virus or whatever is causing people to rise from the dead.

They go to the basic survival instincts. Feeding, the virus spread is just a perk! I am sure they do not know any better.

[Itashious_boy]

HAHA!!! THIS IS SOMETHING I KNOW THE ANSWER TO1!!!!1!!!

read the undead bible, lol
it says excactly why they are able to find you and why they eat you but dont need u to survive

in the UDB it says that the undead have a second sense activated by the t-virus, the other half of the brain not used if you will, something like that, and it sense's the living the actuall soul in the body and zombies follow it, once they get ahold of it they tear open the body trying to "take the life" for themselves, but it doenst work, they just end up spreading the virus and killing the victom

problem solved

EDIT:
oh and it even says that people mistaken the "basic survival instincts" for their soul feeding freenzy

[progenitor]

Resident Evil zombies loosely follow the mythos of the George A. Romero zombies (originally called ghouls by him). In the first Resident Evil novel, a zombie actually does chow down on a fallen zombie's goo-brains. Scientifically speaking, the reanimated zombies have a instinctual hunger for living flesh and tissue. Therefore, the zombies are drawn towards living flesh and tissue, by whatever instinctual means left by the virus after decomposition. Heat signature, mayhaps? Never really explained.

In all honesty, the zombies should have to be in very close distance to be able to detect someone, although, I like what they did in the REmake by having zombies mutate further into the crimson heads, that way it's a bit more believable that one of them could hunt someone down.

[Cheburan]

a fundamental question. the answer already having been given above more or less exhaustingly, i.e. zombies only being interested in living matter and not in dead tissue.

[Accel]

I remember reading (I forget where) that Zombies infected with the T-Virus will at first look for living creatures to eat since the scent of living flesh attracts them. But if none are around they'll just attack and eat each other after a while.

[nicksena17]

I think they can smell the difference between zombie and human

[Stu]

Another thing that seems to go unnoticed i think...not just the smell of rotting flesh...but the smell of faeces. I mean, they're not going to the toilet are they? All that raw meat has to be going somewhere?

[Shadow Stalker]

Another thing that seems to go unnoticed i think...not just the smell of rotting flesh...but the smell of faeces. I mean, they're not going to the toilet are they? All that raw meat has to be going somewhere?

Hmm, good point.

[Darkmoon]

Another thing that seems to go unnoticed i think...not just the smell of rotting flesh...but the smell of faeces. I mean, they're not going to the toilet are they? All that raw meat has to be going somewhere?

I wonder if it's the same as the Max Brooks books...the flesh simply sits in there digestive system until it's forced out the other end by the preasure above or there gut explode.

[Shadow Stalker]

I wonder if it's the same as the Max Brooks books...the flesh simply sits in there digestive system until it's forced out the other end by the preasure above or there gut explode.

I haven't read any of Max Brooks' books on zombies, but that is another possible theory.