couplea questions inspired by the loot update

[Str8JcktSerenade]

Do animates count as contributors in a group? For instance, say i animate a krol warfarer and take him to shan, which i'm not too much older than, but he'd be 15 levels younger...if it did all the work, would the over-hunting system go into effect?

Related sub-question...say me and an animated shan take a youngin out huntin warfarers, shan and youngin kill, i sit back and watch...would i count as having contributed by underhunting? and would the same go if the animate was closer to wafarer age?

And my last, slightly unrelated question concerining bounties...since hindering a critter counts you as a contributor in a group, when doing heirloom bounties, can you find your heirloom solely by disabling and letting someone else do the work (animate, player, etc.), then searching? I think i remember hearing somewhere, concerning Mind Jolt, that if the critter's still stunned when it dies, you get exp towards the kill, so wondering if anyone knows if that works with any other disabling spells (call wind, ewaves, tremors, limb disrupt, hand of tonis, weapon fire, etc.)

Sorry for the long-windedness, but these kinda things keep me up at night :)

[g++]

In answer to one part of your question I have found heirlooms on creatures the character with the bounty did not touch. I think its just a random check everytime you loot a creature of said type.

[Allereli]

with heirloom bounties you don't even have to do any disabling, you don't even have to swing or cast. As long as you're the one searching you can find it