tyreese and sasha were feeding the rats to the walkers.
tyreese and sasha were feeding the rats to the walkers.
who was feeding the rats to the walkers?
tyreese and sasha
in the episode "inmates", lizzie, mika and tyreese are shown to have escaped the prison with judith. lizzie kills a group of rabbits, and during a walker attack she covers judith's mouth to try to stop her from crying but nearly smothers the baby. carol finds the children, and then takes them to tyreese. in the episode "the grove", they come to stay at an abandoned farm with a pecan grove. lizzie shows great distress when walkers are killed and mika is unwilling to toughen up and become hardened, due to her compassion for others. lizzie believes that walkers are "just different" and that they want her to "feel the way they feel" rather than kill living humans, but mika reassures the adults that she is not like her sister, and understands that walkers are dangerous. carol and tyreese come back to the farmhouse after gathering food in the woods and they see that lizzie has stabbed mika to death and plans to do the same to judith. lizzie tells tyreese and carol that she has spared mika's brain so that she will come back as a walker, and asks them – at gunpoint – to leave mika's body alone. carol later kills lizzie after taking her outside to "look at the flowers" to distract and calm her. tyreese reveals that lizzie had admitted to being the one at the prison who fed rats to walkers at the fence (as seen in "infected") and who dissected the rabbit that tyreese found in the tombs (as seen in "too far gone").
lizzie and mika samuels
activity anorexia (aa) is a condition where rats begin to exercise excessively while simultaneously cutting down on their food intake, similar to human anorexia nervosa or hypergymnasia. when given free access to food and an exercise wheel, rats normally develop a balanced routine between exercise and food intake, which turns them into fit rats. however, if food intake is restricted and wheel access is unrestricted, rats begin to exercise more and eat less, resulting in excessive weight loss and, ultimately, death. the running cycles shift so that most of the running is done in hours before feeding is scheduled. in other conditions, aa does not develop. unrestricted food access and restricted wheel access will not cause any significant change in either feeding or exercise routine. also, if rats are restricted both in food intake and wheel access, they will adjust accordingly. in fact, if rats are first trained to the feeding schedule and then given unrestricted access to a running wheel, they will not develop aa behavior. results support the notion that the running interferes with adaptation to the new feeding schedule and is associated with the reward system in the brain. one theory is that running simulates foraging, a natural behavior in wild rats. laboratory rats therefore run (forage) more in response to food shortages. the effect of semi-starvation on activity has also been studied in primates. rhesus macaque males become hyperactive in response to long-term chronic food restriction.
animal psychopathology