Perhaps they share the same AI that smite crawlers has?
You can see from time to time 2 groups of smite crawlers fighting each other because of their netural AI (and sometimes they are fighting the coldfires as well) due to zealot's fire PBAoE.
I can't remeber if any of the destoryers has a skill with similar function, but perhaps that's the reason for this 'abnormal' behavior...
Some avicara groups around Droks and in Mineral Springs fight each other as well, but according to the wiki there is actually a backstory/reason as to why they do this. Not sure about destroyers...could possibly be their uhh....destructive nature. As for smite crawlers...they just look like they'd be cannibals..