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I'm impressed by Ndhzengas accepting the PCM's challenge. This is not the first time they had close encounters like that.
I'm willing to say that the PCM can feel these roars are from prime ans confident dominant males, so they are a bit hesitant to use their classic strategy of charging in blind and kick the door open like they did with Nhenha/NK or how they do to potentially dangerous nomads like the Kambulas.
This is interesting because it is the first dominant duo they challenge since the first one, NK/Nhenha who were only dominant for a month or so, and were males the PCM already knew well, having chased them as nomads multiple times in Singita.
Ndhzengas are mostly "unknown" to them and they can only know that the roars and scent-marking are from well established healthy and prime males.
It shows how tough it usually is for prime and confident males to challenge one another in even numbers, they usually can't just charge in.
This makes the Gijima feats of chasing dominant Nkhulu while heavily outnumbered even more impressive.