Herd

A **Herd** is a large group of zombies. They are usually attracted by sound, leading a few individuals to come together, eventually finding and merging with new groups, growing larger and larger and even more ferocious.

Herds wander around without a real purpose until attracted by sounds or prey. Herds are notably more aggressive than smaller groups, and the presence of zombies around other zombies almost creates a "synapse", or "hive-mind" effect, with them able to react more quickly by watching what others do rather than acting on their own. Herds can smash through the heaviest of barricades, tear down fences, and completely overwhelm humans in waves of undead bodies, and are essentially the zombie population at its most dangerous.

## Nicknames

**Bodies**
A term used by the Civic Republic to describe a herd.
**Clusters**
A term used by the Civic Republic to describe a herd.
**Columns**
A term used by the Civic Republic to describe a herd.
**Crowd**
A term used by Abraham Ford to describe a herd.
**Feeding Frenzy**
A term used by Glenn Rhee when describing the herd of walkers outside the tank to Rick Grimes when he was trying to save him.
**Group**
A term that is generally used to describe a herd.
**Herd**
As described by Eugene Porter in the comic book, a herd is when a group of Walkers acts with a mob mentality. One zombie might brush his hand on a door knob, and another will see this and mistake it as an attempt to get in. Then he will beat on the door to get in, and the first zombie will see this and try to get in. This will spark a chain reaction. An example of this is in the start of the Season 2 finale where a zombie sees a helicopter and follows it to Hershel's farm.
**Horde**
A term used to describe a large group of walkers.
**Mass**
A term used by Dr. Chauncey Everett to describe a herd.
**Mega Clusters**
A term used by the Civic Republic to describe a large herd.
**Mess**
A term often used to describe a horde, most notably by Dwight.
**Pack**
A term used by Dr. Chauncey Everett to describe a herd. Also used Shane Walsh to describe a group of walkers that is smaller than a herd, like the ones that attacked the Camp.
**Storm**
A term used by Sandra to describe a herd.
**Swarms**
Used in *The Walking Dead Webisodes: The Oath*, a small horde is called a "swarm" by Paul and Karina. The Commonwealth soldiers used this term as well.
**Typhoon**
A term used the describe a heard in *The Walking Dead: Typhoon*.

## TV Series

### Pre-Apocalypse

The name "Herd" was adopted from the terminology for a herd of cattle. Cattle typically bulk together to graze or for protection, and, if angered, a herd can form a deadly stampede. This formed the basis for the post-apocalyptic terminology for large groups of walkers.

### Post-Apocalypse

The first herd of walkers appears in Atlanta, Georgia, when Rick Grimes arrives there in search of his family. The herd traps Rick in tank and devours the Siggard Family Horse. With help from Glenn Rhee, Rick is able to escape and joins a group that gets trapped in a nearby department store by the herd. The group is able to escape from the store as the herd overruns it, leaving Merle Dixon trapped on the roof. Merle is later able to escape and by the time Rick, Glenn, T-Dog and Daryl return to rescue him, the herd is gone from the store aside from a few stray walkers.

A small herd attacks the Atlanta Survivor Camp at night, killing and infecting multiple people including Ed Peletier and Amy. The camp's defenders, particularly Shane Walsh, Mariana Walsh, Rosa Grimes, Jim, and Morales manage to hold them off using a combination of guns and baseball bats. When Rick, Glenn, T-Dog and Daryl return from Atlanta, they help finish off the herd with weapons from the Sheriff's bag of guns. The next day, the camp survivors burn the bodies of the dead walkers while making sure their own dead don't reanimate. The attack forces the survivors to abandon the location as no longer safe while Jim is later revealed to have been bitten and eventually chooses to be left behind to turn. This particular herd is later referred to as being more of a small pack compared to what is typically seen by survivors.

After Dale's RV breaks down on the Vehicle Jammed Highway due to its troublesome radiator hose, a massive herd of hundreds of walkers is spotted heading down the highway. The Survivors takes cover under various vehicles as the herd passes by and mostly avoid notice. However, T-Dog slices open his arm on a car door and attracts several walkers to him. Daryl is able to save T-Dog by killing a walker with a screwdriver then using the walker's corpse and a corpse from a nearby car to cover himself and T-Dog, effectively masking their scent and allowing the two men to play dead. One walker enters Dale's RV through its open door and attacks Andrea, but she is able to kill it with a screwdriver through the eye. However, after the herd appears to have gone, Sophia and Mini Peletier emerges from hiding only to be attacked by five straggling walkers who chase them into the woods. Mariana gets Sophia and kills off the walkers using her daggers and Rick kills the walkers using a rock to avoid notice, but Mini disappears.

While on a mission to get medical supplies for Carl Grimes, Shane Walsh, Mariana Walsh, and Otis spot a massive herd of walkers at the Cranwall High School that appears to mainly be made up of the FEMA and military personnel as well as the civilian survivors that had been at the high school before it was overrun. The two are able to distract the herd with flares from an abandoned patrol car and retrieve the needed supplies, but make too much noise and are chased by the herd into the school. The herd chases the two men into the gym where they create a distraction and escape out the gym and locker room windows respectively. However, both men hurt their leg and use up their ammunition as they try to escape to their vehicle in the parking lot. Down to his last bullet, Shane shoots Otis in the leg and escapes as the herd focuses on devouring the other man.

While investigating the Wiltshire Estates in search of Mini, Shane and Mariana inadvertently draw the attention of a small herd. Fleeing back to Shane's car, Mariana kills several walkers, allowing the two to reach Shane's car.

During the confrontation between the Living and Rick, Hershel, and Glenn at The Carriage Bar, a relatively small herd of walkers are drawn in by the gunfire. Three walkers attack the wounded Sean and though Hershel kills one, the other two devour Sean. More come from all directions as Hershel attempts to amputate Randall's leg and Rick and Glenn struggle to hold them off and buy Hershel the time he needs. Finally, Rick yanks Randall's leg off the fence post its impaled on and they flee in Hershel's truck.

When Rick and Shane take Randall Culver to the Mert County Public Works, they are unaware of a small herd inside of the building. During Rick and Shane's fight, Shane throws a wrench at Rick, shattering a window and alerting the walkers inside. Rick kills the first walker to emerge and uses its body to hide under as the rest emerge. Most corner Shane in a school bus where he systematically attracts them with his blood and then stabs them in the head with a knife, allowing him to kill a few, but not to escape. After a walker discovers Rick alive, it and two others corner Rick, but he manages to kill them. Retrieving Shane's car with Randall's help, Rick shoots several walkers and helps Shane escape out the back of the bus, Randall driving over a walker's head as they drive away. The confrontation leaves only three of the walkers still alive and they attempt to chase Rick, Randall and Shane without success.

A herd of walkers is drawn out of Atlanta, Georgia by a passing helicopter. As the herd continues down the road, it is joined by more and more walkers until the herd numbers in the thousands. As the herd passes through the swamp near the Greene Family Farm, it is attracted by the sound of the gunshot coming from Carl Grimes putting down a reanimated Shane Walsh. Spotting the herd, Hershel Greene, Maggie Greene, Mariana Walsh, Rosa Grimes, Nora Santos, Glenn Rhee, T-Dog, Daryl Dixon, Jimmy, and Andrea attempt to kill as many walkers as they can using the farm's vehicles and plan to then draw the herd away using the cars. Rick and Carl lure many into the barn and set it on fire, killing them. However, while trying to rescue the two with Dale's RV, Jimmy is overrun and devoured. While fleeing from the house when it becomes clear that the farm is lost, Patricia is similarly devoured. Carol Peletier is nearly killed looking for Carl and Sophia, but is saved by Mariana Walsh and flees only to be rescued by Daryl. Separately, the Greene family, the Grimes family, Glenn, Daryl, Sophia, and Carol manage to escape the farm and reunite on the Vehicle Jammed Highway. Andrea evades most of the herd, but is eventually cornered and nearly killed before she is rescued by Michonne and Toni Hawthorne. The Greene Family Farm is left overrun by the herd, abandoned by all of its living inhabitants.

In Season 3, a herd of walkers appeared to have settled themselves in and around the West Georgia Correctional Facility. The area is known as the "Red Zone" by the people of Woodbury, Georgia.

A large herd gathers outside of the prison fence, drawn by the gunshots and chaos from those infected with the prison flu running rampant. Rick is forced to sacrifice the piglets in order to draw it away when the herd threatens to break through the fence.

A herd not far from the red zone is found by Daryl Dixon, Tyreese, Toni, Michonne, and Bob Stookey in "Isolation". It is numbered at 7,500 walkers.

A large herd gathers outside of the prison fence while everyone is either too sick to keep the walkers from pilling up or too busy elsewhere. According to Maggie, it's larger than the one that had previously almost broken through the fence before being drawn away by the piglets being sacrificed. While Maggie goes to help her father, Rick attempts to shore up the fence with Carl's help, but the herd eventually breaks through and overruns the prison yard. Out of options, Rick and Carl arm themselves with assault rifles and successfully gun down the entire herd. Once the herd is taken down, Rick and Carl go through the bodies and put down a few survivors.

The fighting between the prison group and the Governor's militia attracts a herd of nearby walkers which eventually occupy the ruined prison, rendering it uninhabitable. Clara, a woman who committed suicide in front of Rick in "30 Days Without An Accident", is among the walkers.

After escaping the overrun prison, Daryl and Beth Greene hide from a herd in the trunk of an abandoned car during a thunderstorm. As it takes multiple hours for all walkers to pass, as evidenced by time lapses in the scene, it can be assumed it is a large herd passing by.

A massive herd is drawn towards Terminus by the gunfire from the Survivors' attempted escape. The herd is spotted by Mariana Walsh, Nora Santos, Hazel Greene, Carol Peletier, and Tyreese Williams who hide with Alek, Lucy, and Judith until the herd goes by. Mariana, Nora, Hazel, Carol, and Tyreese prevent Martin from using fireworks to draw the herd away from Terminus. In order to save her friends, Mariana and Carol slathers themselves in walker guts and makes their way to Terminus where they witnesses the residents fending off the herd. Using a rifle and Martin's fireworks, Mariana detonates a large propane tank, setting Terminus on fire and destroying a large portion of the fence. The herd is able to invade Terminus, overrunning the residents despite their best efforts to stop the walkers. Mariana and Carol are able to enter Terminus disguised as a walker and help free their friends who leave Terminus to be destroyed by the overwhelming numbers of the herd.

Upon meeting the Survivors, Father Gabriel Stokes reveals that the only place nearby that hasn't been scavenged yet is a food bank that is overrun by a dozen or so walkers. Finding them in the flooded basement, Rick, Michonne, Sasha, Bob, and Gabriel climb into the basement and form a barricade of some shelves. As the walkers approach and are blocked by the shelves, the group stabs them from behind the safety of the barricade. However, Gabriel panics and flees when he sees his reanimated church organist amongst the undead. With Gabriel in trouble, the group pushes the shelves down on the walkers in front of them, crushing them and fight their way to Gabriel's aid, putting down the remaining walkers. However, a single walker that they had missed drags Bob under water, but he emerges, apparently unharmed but shaken, and impales the walker on a pipe before Sasha finishes it off. When pressed by the others, Bob insists that he's fine. However, Bob is later revealed to have been bitten and he confirms that it was by the walker at the food bank that had dragged him under water. Bob later succumbs to the infection from the bite and dies.

When Abraham Ford, Rosita Espinosa, Eugene Porter, Glenn Rhee, Maggie Greene, and Tara Chambler are on the way to Washington, D.C., in "Self Help", a massive herd blocks their path on the road. This eventually leads to Eugene's confession that he does not know the cure to the outbreak.

A large herd attacks the Woodlands Mall Construction Site as Tobin's construction crew works on expanding Alexandria's wall. Francine falls off of an excavator's bucket in front of the herd and injures herself, but Tobin orders the rest of the construction crew to fall back, intending to leave Francine to die rather than risking their lives to save her. Abraham rushes to Francine's rescue and, with the herd closing in from all sides, helps her up into the excavator. Crawling under the excavator and shooting a few walkers that try to follow him, Abraham tosses Francine his machine gun and orders her to focus on shooting the rear end of the herd while Abraham uses a large tool to take out the ones in the front who are forced to come at him single file due to the tight fit between the front of the excavator and something next to it. Against Tobin's objections, Bruce joins in and together, Abraham, Francine and Bruce take out the entire herd.

A significantly large herd numbering at 30,000 walkers was first seen in the Season 6 premiere, "First Time Again". It was trapped inside a rock quarry near Alexandria. Rick and the other residents planned to direct the herd away, but as they were doing a trial run part of the barrier trucks fell and released the herd, forcing them to execute the plan immediately. As they were leading the herd away, half of it broke loose due to a horn and made its way towards Alexandria, eventually arriving right at the community's wall in "Now" and began to gather around in "Heads Up".

Another herd was also present in "Thank You" at an abandoned town that Aiden and Nicholas had previously scouted for supplies. During that previous run, an accident resulted in the death of Will, a former scout for Alexandria. The herd in that abandoned town was also responsible for the deaths of Sturgess, Annie, and David. Later on, it led Nicholas to commit suicide after he and Glenn were cornered in an alleyway.

The section of the herd that broke off in "First Time Again" was able to enter Alexandria when the church watchtower, located outside of the wall, fell over in "Start to Finish". The herd flooded the streets, forcing all of Alexandria's residents to barricade themselves inside their homes.

In "No Way Out", the herd roamed the streets of Alexandria. Rick, Mariana, Nora, Rosa, Hazel, Toni, Sophia, Carl, Michonne, Jessie, Sam, Ron, and Father Gabriel used guts smeared on sheets to move through the herd unnoticed, planning to get outside and draw it away with cars at the quarry. Sam panicked before they could make it out and drew the attention of several walkers and was devoured. This caused a chain reaction that led to the deaths of Jessie and Ron and to Carl being shot in the eye.

Denise and Owen move through the herd but Denise is grabbed and Owen saves her resulting in him getting bitten, Denise promises to save him if they get to the infirmary.

They continue to move through the herd, but Owen is shot by Carol and - as a last stand - grabs several walkers to save Denise, she then sorrowfully leaves him to reanimate and heads towards the infirmary arriving at the same time as Rick, Michonne, Toni, Mariana, Nora, Rosa, and an unconscious Carl.

In a fit of rage over losing Jessie and almost Carl, Rick heads outside to face the herd himself. Aaron, Nora, Rosa, Michonne, Toni, Heath, and Spencer head outside to help and soon Olivia, Eric, and Bruce, join alongside the rest of the able bodied Alexandrians.

Glenn and Enid go together to save Maggie but Glenn is surrounded and is about to be devoured when Sasha and Abraham arrive and shoot all the walkers, saving Glenn.

Daryl pours all oil from the truck into the lake and fires his rocket launcher, creating a huge fire, all the walkers see this and walk towards it killing themselves, The Alexandrian army take this time to kill all possible walkers. This marks the end of the super herd.

On their way back from the Kingdom Rick and his group stumbles upon a herd on a highway near the Sanctuary cutting most of them in half with a wire between two cars and let some explode with TNT.

When the Survivors try to get guns from Oceanside, the commotion draws a nearby barnacle-encrusted herd. Upon noticing the herd, the two groups team up together and take out all of the walkers without losing a single person.

At the beginning of Season 8, the Militia lures a massive herd to the Sanctuary and take down its fences, effectively leaving the Saviors under siege while they destroy all of the Savior outposts. The plan is stated to be to use the herd to force the Savior lieutenants to surrender and allow them to kill Negan Smith.

In "The Big Scary U," Negan and Gabriel Stokes are left trapped together in a wooden trailer while the situation in the Sanctuary grows more dire. Negan convinces Gabriel to work with him and they smear themselves in walker guts in an attempt to reach the entrance to the Sanctuary safely. Despite the walkers eventually seeing through the trick and attacking, the two men manage to make it into the Sanctuary. However, using walker guts in such a way leaves Gabriel with an infection that is making him progressively more ill.

In "Time for After," Eugene Porter tries to use a makeshift drone and music device to lead the herd away but is thwarted by Dwight. At the same time, Daryl Dixon, Tara Chambler, and Morgan Jones work together against orders to break the Sanctuary walls and allow the herd in to finish the Saviors. Though they succeed, Eugene proposes a plan using most of the Saviors remaining weapons and ammunition to clear out the herd. As seen in "Honor," after managing to clear out the inside of the Sanctuary, several Saviors fire upon the remaining walkers outside from the Sanctuary's upper windows, allowing Saviors to pour out and kill most of the remaining walkers. According to Simon in "How It's Gotta Be," his men draw the remainder away and he threatens to use them against the Hilltop until Maggie agrees to his demands.

In "Monsters", after succumbing to his gunshot wound and dying, Eric Raleigh reanimates and stumbles off to join a nearby herd. The reanimated Eric is spotted by his devastated boyfriend Aaron who has to be held back by Scott from going after him.

In "Some Guy," Ezekiel and his surviving forces come up against a herd of walkers, mainly made up of the slaughtered Kingdom forces. When Ezekiel and Jerry get cornered, Carol sacrifices her chance to stop the remaining Saviors to save the two men. Fleeing, the three encounter a small herd near a polluted creek, presumably people who drank from the creek and died. Cornered, they are saved by Shiva who sacrifices herself so that they can escape.

A small herd is seen gathered outside of the Hilltop following the attack by the Saviors, presumably attracted by the gunfire. The herd is still outside of the Hilltop a day later and has to be drawn away by Kal and the guards when Carol returns with Henry. As the preparations for the final battle begin, Alden and the Savior defectors offer to draw the herd away from the Hilltop completely. Maggie accepts their offer and the former Saviors succeed without suffering any harm. Upon their return, they are accosted by Morgan who was unaware of their mission.

While looking for Henry and the Savior escapees, a walker herd is spotted by Morgan and Carol. As Carol splits off to find Henry, Morgan continues in the direction of the herd and is joined by Rick. After the two are captured by the escaped Saviors, Rick and Morgan warn about the herd which attacks the abandoned dive bar the escaped prisoners are using as their base. The Saviors free Rick and Morgan after the herd kills several of the Saviors and the two men and the Saviors work together before Rick and Morgan suddenly turn on the Saviors and kill them. In order to kill Jared, Morgan purposefully traps him to be devoured by several walkers. In the fight, most of the herd is killed and the much if not all of the rest appear to wander out of the bar again once the Saviors are all dead.

As the Militia makes their way to the final battle with the Saviors, they spot a massive herd filling the horizon in the distance. The Militia is horrified by the sight, particularly as none of them have ever seen a herd so big before. Rick notes that "the world is changing" before they move on. After defeating the Saviors, Rick uses the herd as part of his motivational speech, pointing it out and warning everyone that it will be coming for them unless they can learn to stand together.

Eighteen months after the defeat of the Saviors, a supply convoy is ambushed by a small herd of walkers which is quickly attacked by Daryl and Michonne while the rest of the group attempts to free a stuck wagon. During the fight, Ken is bitten and kicked by a horse. To buy Siddiq time to treat Ken, Rick and Ezekiel join Daryl and Michonne's efforts. Together, the four eliminate the small herd, but Ken dies of his injuries.

During work on repairing a bridge, the work crew has to account for the presence of two nearby herds, one around a hundred members and the other which is even bigger. Blasting to get rid of a rock slide draws the smaller herd which Jerry and Justin are tasked with redirecting. However, Justin fails to do his job and the herd attacks the lumber yard, resulting in Aaron suffering so much damage to his left arm that it later has to be partially amputated. Rick arrives with reinforcements which engage the walkers. Finally, Rick sends a pile of giant logs rolling down the hill over the walkers, killing them all.

After being killed by Oceanside at their former settlement, Justin is fed upon by a herd before they eventually wander off. After the herd is gone, Justin reanimates himself and wanders off as well.

As work on the bridge grinds to a halt, Rick is warned by Eugene that two huge herds are nearby, but are moving parallel and will not combine. Later, Jed's rebellion draws the attention of one of the herds, putting a trapped Rick and Daryl along with the camp into danger. After escaping, Daryl suggests leading the walkers onto the bridge which won't bear their weight and they will get swept out to sea. However, Rick refuses to give up on the project and instead tries to use a horse to draw the herd away. Rick inadvertently leads the herd chasing him to the second herd and is thrown from his horse and seriously wounded as the two herds combine. Rick manages to recover and though seriously hurt, gets back on his horse and continues leading the combined herd towards the bridge. Rick leads the herd across the bridge, but it holds. As Rick's friends desperately try to help him, he notices a case of dynamite fall over on the bridge and shoots it, destroying the bridge and hundreds of walkers caught in the explosion. The herd still on the road continues walking over the bridge, falling through the hole blasted in the middle of it and getting washed out to sea. Unknown to everyone else, Rick survives and is rescued by Anne and her friends in a helicopter.

Six years after Rick's apparent death, Magna's group is ambushed by a herd near an old barn. Lucy Walsh and Judith Grimes clears a path out for the group using Rick's old Colt Python and Shane's old Glock 17 and they escape. A few walkers follow but are put down by Eugene.

At Magna's rig, they find that it has been destroyed by walkers though Magna believes it to be a different herd than the one that Lucy and Judith rescued them from. Later, a massive herd attacks the group outside of an old factory. The group manages to escape and Michonne realizes that its the same one that destroyed Magna's rig when she spots Bernie amongst them. Michonne mercifully puts down Bernie and they are able to escape.

At the same time Michonne's group faces the large herd, a small herd is drawn to Daryl's campsite where they get caught in various traps while trying to get at Dog. Though he runs into trouble, Daryl manages to rescue Dog and dispatch the herd with the help of Henry.

While trying to put up radio equipment, Eugene and Rosita are forced to run from a strangely acting herd.. Due to Eugene's injured knee, Rosita has to leave Eugene behind as she tries to evade the herd. She is eventually rescued by Aaron and Jesus and warns them of the threat she witnessed.

While searching for the missing Eugene, Daryl, Jesus and Aaron spot a massive herd in a field that Daryl tries to redirect. However, the Whisperers amongst the herd prevent the misdirection from working. After being rescued, Eugene suspects that the walkers are evolving as the most likely explanation for their adaptive behavior. The herd eventually chases the party into a cemetery where they are joined by Michonne, Magna and Yumiko. During the battle with the herd, Jesus is killed by a Whisperer who is then killed along with four more Whisperers by Jesus' friends. The herd and the Whisperers advance on the group, but they escape the cemetery after killing four more Whisperers. Though Daryl locks the herd in the cemetery, a Whisperer opens the gate and lets them out.

The next day, Michonne's group spots a small herd of six walkers trailing them and leads them onto a covered bridge where Daryl and Michonne ambush the walkers. Of the six, three prove to be Whisperers. Michonne's group kills the walkers and two of the Whisperers while the third surrenders. Before they can question their captive too much, a larger approaching herd forces the group to push on to Hilltop with their captive.

After reaching the abandoned Sanctuary, Negan is forced to face off with a small herd made up of six reanimated Saviors, including Richie. Negan easily dispatches the other five walkers with a pipe and locks Richie out, but chooses to return to Alexandria and puts Richie down before leaving.

While searching for the missing Alden and Luke, a group from the Hilltop comes across a small herd feasting on the two missing men's horses. Being careful to keep an eye out for Whisperers amongst the herd, the group quickly dispatches the walkers who all turn out to be real walkers. Upon closer examination, its discovered that the horses were cut open and skinned, meaning that the walkers hadn't been the ones to kill them.

Later that night, Magna's group go out searching for this missing friends and find strange tracks. However, the presence of a large herd in the distance causes Magna and Yumiko to decide to turn back while Connie and Kelly decide to continue searching for their missing friends.

The day after Alden and Luke disappear, Alpha arrives at the Hilltop with the Whisperers. The loud argument with the Hilltop residents draws a herd of walkers which Alpha has her people redirect so that they can safely finish the conversation. However, a mother can't quiet her baby so she abandons it to the walkers. Connie rescues the baby, fighting off multiple walkers until Daryl arrives to help with Kelly and Tammy Rose Sutton. The herd eventually moves on before the confrontation between the Hilltop and the Whisperers is over.

As the Whisperers face off with the Hilltop, the Kingdom races a herd to kill enough elk for the upcoming fair. Their side mission to retrieve a projector bulb also races the approach of this same herd with the Kingdom team getting out before the herd can arrive.

At the Royal cinema, the Kingdom forces find it filled with a herd of walkers, most of which they draw away with a boom box playing music which eventually dies. However, around thirty to forty walkers are left trapped in one of the theaters. After Jerry drops the bulb amongst the herd, the Kingdom team works together to eliminate the trapped herd which proves to be small enough for them to deal with by using the stairs as a choke-point and each member of the team targeting a few walkers each.

After Alpha kills Helen and Sean, the Whisperers feed their corpses to a nearby herd. That night, as Alpha tries to force Lydia to kill Henry, a herd suddenly attacks the Whisperer camp, killing at least three Whisperers. As the Whisperers don their masks to hide amongst the attacking herd, a disguised Daryl and Connie, having lured the herd to attack the camp, use the opportunity to rescue Henry and Lydia.

On the way to the Kingdom for the trade fair, the Hilltop delegation is attacked by a herd which the delegation struggles to fend off. Drawn by the cries of Adam Sutton, a group of walkers attack Earl Sutton who is almost overwhelmed before Tammy Rose saves him. As the group continues to fight, several Highwaymen arrive led by Ozzy and help to dispatch the herd.

Following the attack on the Whisperer camp, Beta leads a herd that includes a Whisperer who was bitten during the camp attack to hunt down Daryl's group and retrieve Lydia. The group blockades the staircases in a tall building while waiting on the top floor, forcing the Whisperers to go up alone. After killing the other Whisperers and trapping Beta in an elevator shaft, Connie draws the herd away by using her slingshot to break out a van's windows, allowing the group to safely escape.

After Judith goes missing, Michonne finds her fighting a small herd of walkers. Together, Michonne and Judith kill the herd.

Alpha shows Daryl a herd of thousands upon thousands of walkers in a ravine and reveals that her people are amongst them, steering the herd which Alpha calls a horde. Alpha threatens to unleash the herd upon the Coalition if they cross her again. Months later, the herd has somehow left the area undetected. Daryl and Carol later visit the spot where Alpha showed Daryl the herd and find it still gone, but Carol spots Alpha herself in the trees below. Daryl later states that there were tens of thousands of walkers in this herd.

The Coalition discovers a beached ship on Oceanside's beach with a herd trapped inside. Having trained for such a moment and armed with shields, arrows and spears, the Coalition flawlessly takes down the herd, even after they burst out of the ship *en masse*.

While taking a ride together, Daryl and Carol encounter and take out a few walkers in some friendly competition. However, they also draw a small herd in the process. Together, the two manage to eliminate the herd without much trouble.

As the Coalition fights a fire started by the crash of a satellite, the noise and flames draw a herd to the site. Unable to leave as they can't risk the fire spreading, the Coalition is forced to fight the herd with Carol at one point using a walker's blood to douse some flames and Daryl dropping a burning tree onto several walkers with an axe. Though the Coalition members suffer some injuries, they are able to eliminate the herd without anyone dying or getting bit and put out the fire.

Over the course of a few days time, waves of walkers besiege Alexandria who, despite exhaustion, manage to kill all of the walkers in each wave. Though the Alexandrians fear it is Alpha sending her horde after them, Lydia expresses doubt as Alpha would send the entire horde at once instead of waves at a time. Instead, Eugene suggests that the walkers had been drawn to the area by the satellite crash.

After Alpha's death, Beta is drawn to the Grand Hotel where he plays some of his old music throughout the night, drawing in a massive herd. In the morning, Beta puts down Alpha's zombified head, removes a part of her face to replace the ripped part of his walker mask and leaves unnoticed through the herd.

Beta leads the massive herd first to Alexandria which is abandoned and then towards Oceanside before eventually diverting the herd to the Tower where the survivors are holed up. In order to draw the herd off, a small group uses walker guts to slip through unnoticed by the walkers while the others cover them from inside the hospital. By wounding Whisperers, they are able to break their disguise and the herd finishes them off. However, Beatrice falls victim to the herd after getting wounded by a Whisperer. Hooking up a sound system designed by Luke to a wagon, the group draws the herd away with loud music, but during the journey, the Whisperers attack, destroying the wagon and the sound system and killing Oscar. The group infiltrates the herd and assassinates the Whisperers steering it back towards the Tower. After being stabbed through both eyes by Daryl, Beta is devoured by the walkers. With the Whisperers dead, Lydia and Carol lead the herd off of a high cliff and into a river, ending its threat for good.

While on the run from the Reapers, Negan, Maggie and Alden follow screaming to where Agatha is fending off a small herd to protect the mortally wounded Duncan. With a little help from Maggie, Agatha manages to put down all of the walkers.

As Maggie, Negan, Alden and Agatha try to make their way through the woods to the supply drop in Arbor Hills, they spot another herd that is twice as large as the last one. The herd begins following them as they make their way through the woods and catches up to them as the group stops upon seeing a burned walker on a cross marked as a Judas. As Maggie helps the severely wounded Alden to safety, Negan and Agatha work to fend off the herd. However, during their escape, Agatha gets separated and is bitten in the arm by a walker. With walkers surrounding her, Agatha orders the others to go as she's devoured by the herd which distracts the walkers long enough for the others to get away. The Reapers later retrieve Agatha's body and string it up over Meridian.

A herd manages to break through Alexandria's weakened walls, killing at least one resident before the Coalition manages to kill those who got inside and cover the hole. Walkers continue to congregate around the walls while the residents work to spread them out, worried that since they got through the weakened wall once, they will do it again.

When Aaron, Carol, Jerry and Lydia visit Hilltop in search of supplies to help fix Alexandria's walls, they find it overrun with a small herd of walkers, made up of many reanimated Coalition soldiers who had died in the fall of the Hilltop. After putting down their reanimated friends, the four finds a larger group of walkers controlled by Keith, a surviving Whisperer. After putting down the herd, they capture Keith.

When Kelly finds Connie's camp, she learns from her sister's notebook that she was forced to move with the Whisperers' herd for days with no supplies before she had eventually managed to escape it.

While on the run from an unseen threat, Connie and Virgil a herd outside of a house. The two manage to fend off the walkers long enough to get inside with Virgil putting down one that follows them in while more and more walkers join the herd from the surrounding area. Trapped by the herd outside, they are hunted by the feral survivors inside. Cornered, Connie covers herself in walker guts and opens the door to let the herd in. The herd ignores Connie and Virgil whom she is covering behind her body and devours most of the Ferals. Two are able to escape outside, but they are killed by Kelly as they try to attack Connie and Virgil. A few walkers follow them out but they are put down by Rosita and Magna.

During Sebastian Milton and Kayla Brand's date near where Eugene, Shira, Ezekiel and Princess are clearing houses, a small herd emerges from the woods to threaten the two. Seeing this, Eugene quickly rushes to their rescue and puts all of the walkers down with Shira's help. A lone surviving walker approaches Kayla from behind while Eugene and Sebastian are arguing, but Shira puts it down with her spear. However, she inadvertently splashes Kayla with walker blood in the process.

After encountering the reanimated Teressa, Maggie comes up with the plan to gather up a massive herd and lead them against Meridian in order to defeat the Reapers using Whisperer tactics. Putting down a few nearby walkers, Maggie, Elijah and Gabriel construct Whisperer masks for themselves and Negan trains Maggie in how to lead herds like a Whisperer. Maggie is able to lead a number of walkers to the group's camp while the rest are gathered from where they are trapped in a nearby building. Once the herd is ready, Negan, Maggie, Gabriel and Elijah march it on Meridian with Elijah being saddened to discover his sister amongst the walkers, unable to put her down without breaking his cover.

When the herd finally arrives at Meridian, the Reapers notice their strange behavior and Daryl offers to lead them away. Pope agrees with his plan, but he sends Paul Wells to enact it instead. As Wells leads the herd through the nearby woods, more walkers suddenly come in from the other direction and as Wells desperately tries to fight them off, he is stabbed by Negan and Maggie and then devoured by the herd. Pope admits that he had sent Wells out as a test to see if Maggie was using the walkers as a weapon and the herd backs off until that night when they return, but hit a minefield set up outside of Meridian by the Reapers. As Negan and Elijah continue to lead the herd through the minefield despite suffering injuries from shrapnel, Maggie and Gabriel split off and sneak inside of the walls with the help of Daryl secretly killing the patrolling Powell. Pope has Ancheta prepare the hwacha which will be able to kill most of the walkers, allowing the Reapers to take care of the rest. However, Maggie hotwires a truck and drives it through the gate, letting in the herd while the Reapers desperately attempt to fend them off. Pope orders Ancheta to fire the hwacha into the courtyard despite his people still being in there rather than risking calling them back and alerting the enemy to his plan. Rather than allow him to go through with it, Leah and Daryl kill Pope and Ancheta and cut the fuse to the hwacha. However, Leah blames Pope's murder on Daryl and orders her people to secure the gate and prepare the hwacha once again. As Daryl joins the others in the courtyard, Leah has the Reapers pull back and fires the hwacha on the herd, Negan, Maggie, Elijah and Daryl. Although Maggie's team and most of the Reapers get to safety, the herd is completely destroyed by the hwacha.

At the same time as Maggie's group marches on Meridian, a massive storm blows down a part of the wall in Alexandria and sets the windmill on fire, allowing a herd, drawn by the fire to invade the community. The residents split up to deal with the herd, try to get the wall fixed and put out the fire so that it will stop drawing the walkers. However, at least one more breach is opened in the wall closer to Aaron's house and a number of walkers get into the house despite the defenders efforts to hold them off, forcing the hiding residents to flee upstairs while Judith and Gracie get trapped inside of the flooding basement. The residents heading upstairs intend to keep the walkers confined to the first floor and they don't call for help as the others need to get the breaches fixed and the fire put out so that more walkers don't show up. Rosita, Dianne and Lydia successfully keep the walkers bottled up at the bottom of the stairs while stabbing at them from the landing above. The walkers break into the basement, but hearing Gracie's distress whistle, Aaron rescues the two girls, but becomes trapped himself. Lydia escapes out a window and rescues Aaron from the basement. With Rosita and Dianne handling the walkers just fine on their own, Aaron and Lydia go to help get the fire put out. In the end, the fire is put out, the breaches are closed and all of the walkers are eliminated without anyone dying. When Maggie's team returns from Meridian, several walker corpses are burning.

During a ride along with Mercer, Connie and Kelly witness him single-handedly saving two Commonwealth soldiers from a herd, cutting them all down with a machete.

On the road from Oceanside to the Hilltop, Daryl, Aaron, Pamela Milton, Lance Hornsby, Mercer and the Commonwealth Army encounter Maggie, Elijah and Dianne fending off a herd in the road. Maggie struggles to protect a horse while simultaneously fighting the walkers. With a little help from Daryl, the three manage to eliminate all of the attacking walkers.

As the group is stopped, the Commonwealth's forward unit picks up another herd nearby and while they are dealing with it, the others go hunting.

During the Commonwealth's visit to the Hilltop, a herd arrives at the perimeter, with a few getting through the fence that the residents have set up. On Mercer's orders, the Commonwealth soldiers shoot down the herd and deposit the bodies nearby. Maggie later reports to Pamela that no one was hurt in the attack.

On Sebastian's orders, Alves and Castle bring Daryl and Rosita to a hill overlooking a massive herd surrounding Cooper's House which Daryl and Rosita initially think that they are supposed to clear out. However, Sebastian reveals that he actually wants them to cover themselves in walker guts, sneak through it and retrieve money that is hidden for him in a panic room. After Sebastian threatens their children, the two reluctantly agree and successfully manage to sneak through the herd. Inside the house, Daryl and Rosita discover two men who had killed each other and learn from the trapped April that they were a part of an earlier group that Sebastian had sent in, only April and the two men actually making it through the herd. As Daryl repairs the house's generator, he draws the attention of several walkers who he puts down. Daryl's attempts to break into the safe sets off the house's alarm, drawing the herd into the house before Rosita manages to shut down the alarm. The three barricade themselves inside the panic room and prepare to sneak out using the walker guts again when Carol and Mercer show up to help and shoot their way in through the herd. With Carol and Mercer not having enough ammo to shoot their way out, Daryl has them cover themselves in walker guts from a walker that he drags in and they attempt to sneak out. While they are at first successful, April becomes frightened when she gets caught on a walker's jacket and puts it down, drawing the attention of all of the walkers in the house to them. The group manages to put down all of the walkers in the house, but not before they kill April. After keeping April from reanimating, Daryl, Rosita, Carol and Mercer successfully manage to sneak through the herd outside and escape.

On the road between Riverbend and the Hilltop, Lance, Daryl, Aaron, Gabriel and a detachment of Commonwealth soldiers encounter a herd in the middle of the road. Rather than have his men deal with it, Lance orders Aaron and Gabriel to do it, supposedly so that they can save bullets. Aaron and Gabriel are joined by Daryl and together they effortlessly take out all of the walkers with Daryl only firing a single round to take out two walkers at once.

While hiding from Lance's forces, Daryl and Maggie take out several walkers in a building while outside, Lance and his forces shoot several others. As part of Daryl's plan, as two Commonwealth soldiers stop to deal with a herd, Negan uses his old Whisperer mask to blend in and attack the soldiers, stabbing one while the other one is torn apart by walkers. The herd moves on by the time that Lance and the rest of his men arrive.

A massive herd of thousands of walkers approach the Commonwealth, getting past the outer perimeter and the various checkpoints. When Rosita asks how they managed to get past the outer perimeter, Mercer tells her that somebody wasn't doing their job. Mercer, his soldiers and Rosita go out in three jeeps with mounted machine guns and Mercer divides his forces to have two of the jeeps split the herd up and each lead half of it in opposite directions. However, one of the jeeps overturns and Mercer and Rosita go to the two soldiers' aid. As Rosita uses their jeep's mounted machine gun to gun down approaching walkers, Mercer attempts to help the soldiers aboard. However, the herd grabs one of the soldiers and tears him apart despite Rosita and the other man's covering fire. Although shocked by the loss, Mercer drives away and he and his men proceed with the plan, Mercer's jeep and the other remaining jeep splitting the herd in half and each one leading half away.

On the orders of Lance, Roman Calhoun and Shira murder several Commonwealth janitors who subsequently reanimate and form a small herd. The herd attacks the residents of the Commonwealth during Founders' Day, killing several residents, including Sebastian, before they are put down by Daryl, Judith and Mercer.

Aaron, Jerry, Elijah and Lydia spot a herd on their trek from the Commonwealth to Oceanside and, as a result, they divert to Kingdom 2.0 for the night. However, the herd contains a variant walker that retains some measure of intelligence, and it leads the herd to Kingdom 2.0 and even opens the gate for the herd. The four fight off the walkers, but are forced to retreat onto a roof when they are outnumbered, and the variant walker begins to open the door to their hiding spot. Believing that they are dealing with surviving Whisperers, Aaron sends Lydia and Elijah off of a side of the roof that's free of walkers to separate out the Whisperers. However, the variant walker climbs onto the roof and attacks Jerry. Aaron grapples with the walker and rips off its face and is shocked to discover that it's actually just a walker and not a Whisperer. Aaron puts down the variant walker and, by the next morning, the four have completely eliminated the herd. In the aftermath, Aaron suggests that the walker was one of the type that he'd heard stories about that could climb walls and open doors, although Aaron had never actually witnessed them in person before.

While escaping through a tunnel to avoid Commonwealth patrols, Carol and Lance encounter a herd that attacks them. Fighting off the walkers, Carol puts them down with her AR-15. However, after the herd appears to be completely cleared out, Carol and Lance hear the sound of more approaching walkers and they quickly flee from the tunnel.
At Junction 7, a large herd attacks four Commonwealth soldiers who spread out to take care of them. As the soldiers deal with the walkers, Daryl, Carol, Rosita, Gabriel and Maggie take advantage of the distraction to ambush and take them out. By the time that Daryl returns after killing Trooper 192, the herd has either been eliminated by the others or has moved on.