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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5779550" data-attributes="member: 54846">Here is how I would argue it.Bears (and I suspect the dire variety) are not used to being in danger by a legitimate threat. They don't typically run away or find themselves in actual danger, and can tear to shreds anything that would actually try to get up in their grill. I assume the PC damaged this bear, as opposed to the bear just lashing out at random. By personally damaging the bear, the bear took the PC to be a threat and being damaged enraged the bear. The bear, not being intelligent, did not say "oh, this thing is no longer moving, but the other ones are a threat. I shall now harm them now that this one isn't moving." The bear was likely thing "OW RAAA" *TEAR TEAR TEAR TEAR* I think it's reasonable to assume a bear is hard to discourage once it's set its mind to doing something, and may not notice the moment its target stops struggling, especially when wounded and in the middle of a fight.Also, many predators are quite single-minded when it comes to 'I'm attakcing' vs 'something's attacking me'. Mountain lions who are currently chomping on one person are very difficult to stop - even if a second or third person is hitting the mountain lion, it takes a lot to actually discourage them from halting the assault on their initial target. I would speculate part of the reason is that mountain lions aren't used to being threatened by anything, so 'oh no I'm attacked by food' doesn't come up a lot in their instincts. The exception to all of this would be if there were cubs present. Instinctive mother bear protection behavior would likely make it want to/try to kill everything.</blockquote>

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