Question idle animation interrupts death when player stops looking at a mob's corpse

So I'm a super novice to animations in Unity. I have an odd issue, where the idle animation interrupts the death animation when the player stops looking at a mob's corpse. So I kill the mob and it triggers the death animation just fine, but when I look away it starts playing the idle animation. When I look back at the corpse it plays the death animation. It's so odd, and I'm unsure how to fix it. Any thoughts?