Can animals stop bleeding?

[Voelkar]

I just shot a deer somewhere in the throat, tracked its track but then the blood track stopped. Which makes me wonder: Can animals stop bleeding?

EDIT: I think I found my prey. Are there signs or behaviours some animals do when they got hit? I think that one here is acting weird

[MARTFONGER]

There are chiefly three MAJOR problems with hunting that I regularly experience

1) Blood stains disappearing or not appearing at all
2) The wolf I am chasing runs up an impossibly steep mountain face that I can't possibly climb
3) The wolf I am chasing despawns or (it's hard to know for sure outside of play mode in Unity) clips through the ground and is 'lost to space and time' as it begins its eternal trip downward to the kill plane.

[iwasa]

I have seen deer that were bleeding run until they suddenly drop dead. The blood trail starts out pretty substantial but peters out after a time and become definitely hard to follow - from drops every couple steps to one maybe every 10 then 20 then 30+ feet until they seem to stop. Towards the end, I have to stop at a blood spot then cast around, because of the fact that a dying deer will sometimes make radical turns (the tracks have usually disappeared already).

I do use the game stats to determine if the animal died (deer, wolves, bears). At least I know it has stopped moving.

Wolves that are dying will take on a limping walk, Deer just continue to run though previously I have seen mortally wounded deer run out onto the weak ice (pre-Vigilant Trespass) then amble back towards Coastal before dying, sometimes just 10 feet onto weak ice.

[Selfless]

Wolves are the only animals that currently behave different when injured. They do sprint away for the first 15 game minutes but then they will slow down and limp a bit until they die.

Deer and Bear both just sprint away until they get beyond a rendering limit, then they simply resume normal movement. Only way to distinguish them after that is to scare them back into running again. The wounded should start to drop more blood and wont stop running until they get out of rendering range again.

Regardless, all wounded animals will die when their bleed timer expires. For a deer shot in the neck with an arrow, that's 20 game minutes. So it should probably be dead by now. Maybe you just "winged" it? If so, it was never wounded.

[Voelkar]

I found it at the exact spot where I shot it. Weird

[Ghostee]

I once found an animal in the exact spot that I shot it. It is strange..

If its snowing the blood trail seems to get covered pretty quickly, so that's definity an issue with hunting.