Skeletons Don't look in the Y-axis when they are strafing, their head and arm rotation is fixed to 90 degrees.
You can replicate this buy getting them to Strafe and go to a higher / lower ground and you will see that they're head and arm rotation do not adjust to look at where you are
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Mark Derickson No I wasn't, It will need OptiFine to work, and as you can see it says "1.16.1/Vanilla"
Duplicate of MC-121706
Please provide a screenshot of this occurring with the F3 debug screen enabled.