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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1735654" data-attributes="member: 259">Heh--I'm a humane society educator, so while I'm not an expert at animal behavior, I'm a little more familiar with it than the average bear <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Consider fighting dogs:  when a fighting dog gets ahold of an enemy, they'll sometimes stay on the enemy well after the enemy is dead.  This isn't a "smart" tactic, but fighting dogs aren't bred to be "smart":  they're bred for a psychopathic desire to fight.  (Note that this doesn't mean, for example, that all Staffordshire Terriers/Pit Bulls are psychotic:  rather, the ones bred by animal fighters are inbred over and over until psychoses emerge).  A dog bred for fighting, unless it's specifically and well trained to leave a downed opponent, is very likely to go for the throat of the downed opponent. Consider rabid animals:  rabid animals often display extreme sexual or territorial aggression, with little or no regard for their own safety.  A rabid badger might ignore other creatures in favor of mauling the corpse of the first person it got angry at. Consider normal animals:  normal animals are probably not going to be attacking humans in the first place, and probably aren't going to hang around once it becomes clear that the humans are going to hurt them.  Lots of the animals that a PC fights, therefore, are not normal, and may be rabid or otherwise loco. Daniel</blockquote>

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