# How come cockroaches ignore zombies? aren't they carrion creatures?

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**Created:** [March 9, 2021, 5:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-come-cockroaches-ignore-zombies-arent-they-carrion-creatures/26057 "2021-03-09T05:34:28Z")\
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The reason they ignore each other was - as far as I remember from one pull request - that there was too much fighting going on between all the animals and Zombies in a city, so they were made to ignore each other…

Edit:  
Well, small correction… I found the pull request and spicyshadow was correct:

> [@Pull request 15372](#):
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> Zombies don’t want to attack arthropods because those are too small and won’t zombify.  
> […]  
> Roaches don’t attack zombies because even though they probably could tank that blob poison, they have a lot of better food around.

Also, take a look at this topic, some of the discussion is similar to here:

> [@Cockroach is zombie faction? Intended?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cockroach-is-zombie-faction-intended/24538):
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> What faction is huge cockroach? It is a mutated animal, so I can understand if it in fact zombie faction, but there is no indication that it is, so I thought it was just ‘mutated animal faction’ huge cockroach and zombies go out of their way to ignore each other, even when I went so far as to block a door with the roach, but the zombie just pushed it into the room with me so they could both attack me.

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