A small gibberling screams and attacks you!
*** ATTACKING YOU! ***
A small gibberling's bite misses you.
A small gibberling's bite scratches you.
A small gibberling's bite misses you.
A small gibberling's bite misses you.
Your slash injures a small gibberling.
A small gibberling is DEAD!!
You receive 168 experience points.
A small gibberling's feet are sliced from his dead body.

camo
You attempt to camouflage yourself.


A small gibberling's bite misses you.
You step out from your cover

I'm assuming that you were fighting multiple gibberlings, you camo'd after one died. It however is still fighting you, and thus brings you back into combat and out of hiding. It's not like it doesn't know where you are.