Kambula/Ntsevu males

[Duco Ndona]

Its one thing to talk big, but another to actually fight.

Groups as big as these tend to suffer from the bystander effect.
Together they are pretty confident, but individually each one of them just expects the rest of the group to handle it. So if one of their rivals actually shows up to answer their challenge.
Its more a question of which one of them flees first rather than attacks. Then the rest flees with him. 
Sometimes one of them makes an attempt to attack or stay behind to fight. But with most of them fleeing, they lose the advantage in numbers and the brave one gets mauled and learns not to do that again.

Atleast, its what I suspect is going on. Reply