I’ve read already that when it comes to prey animals, the hunter is probably waiting for it to die or looking at their surroundings, and the prey animal is playing dead so it has slightly more chances of surviving or something similar.
But when it comes to bigger and stronger animals, why do they do this? Like, for example, a documentary video on youtube popped in my recommended with two bears fighting each other, first off they start “shouting” to each other, and then they fight, but after fighting for a while, they just both stop and look at each other, and one of them even has their neck open for an attack of the other bear, so it’s in a vulnerable position, still though, none of them attack nor do anything for quite some time.
I’ve seen this happen in documentaries and videos and stuff with a lot of other animals, not necessarily bears, so why do they do this?
In: Biology
Rule #1 when fighting a cat as a cat. Never turn around. A lot of predators do this as defense. They have front facing eyes, they know they can kill with one blow or be killed with one blow. Makes sense to stay locked on your target and make decisive blows.
Also conserving energy is very very important for hunting. Unnecessary movements eat that up.
That’s what I think anyways.
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