Next Up: 4th-seeded Maroon Langur (Presbytis rubicunda) vs. No.5 seed Red Brocket (Mazama americana) #2021MMM ImageImage
After last night's amphibian vs amphibian, reptile vs. reptile, named for an Egyptian god vs named for an Egyptian god...
Tonight we bring you brutal Ruminant on ruminant* action! #2021MMM
Cause we're really gonna rock tonight! #2021MMM
As deer (Cervidae), the Red Brocket is a true ruminant in the Artiodactyl suborder Ruminantia, with a four chambered stomach that allows fluid washing & microbial fermentation for plant matter digestion (Jones et al. 2018). #PlantCarnage #2021MMM core.ac.uk/download/pdf/3… Phylogeny of suborder Rumin...
During the breeding season, Red Brocket male courtship behavior involves special "bleat" vocalizations that are used to attract females who choose which male will be their mate (Black-Décima et al. 2020) repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/1… #2021MMM
Maroon Langur, like other monkeys in the taxonomic subfamily Colobinae, is a foregut fermenters w/ a comparmentalized stomach, symbiotic microbiome, & other adaptations to digest fiber-heavy, herbivorous diet (Hoshino et al. 2021) #PlantCarnage #2021MMM biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Red Langur monkey in green ...
Maroon Langurs consume a relatively large diet of fruits & seeds for a folivore. They also have a wide daily travel area to support their foraging for fruits (Smith et al. 2013) #2021MMM image by Charles J. Sharp cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abst… Maroon Langur Monkey in gre...
Unlike many other primate species, Maroon Langurs are notable for their very low social interactions among adult group members w/o observations of social grooming among adults (Smith et al. 2013) #2021MMM cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abst…
Tonight's battle takes place in the peat swamp Sebangau Forest, Central Kalimantan of Indonesian Borneo #2021MMM Map of the Peat Swamp Fores...
A uni-male, multi-female group of Maroon Langurs with several infants and juveniles in the group have come to the ground to forage, as is common in this location
(Cheyne et al. 2018)
#2021MMM link.springer.com/article/10.100…
In the trees, snakes & raptors can be dangerous predators of Maroon Langurs, but humans have caused extinctions, local extirpations, or endangerment of many terrestrial predators so the ground isn't a scary as it once was (Cheyne et al. 2018). #Dhole #Leopards #2021MMM
Two Maroon Langur females have found a patch of mushrooms and are eagerly gorging on the fungi, briefly letting down their vigilance (Cheyne et al. 2019) #2021MMM pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30889599/
The large male Maroon Langur has himself ravaged ripe fallen fruit & is resting, eye closed, a couple meters away from the females.

The white-haired infants and juveniles gambol, absorbed in an intense bout of rough & tumble play! (image from borneonaturefoundation.org) #2021MMM Image
Enter... THE RED BROCKET! #2021MMM Image
He strolls through in the tree trunks,
marshes and mud;
grazin' and browsin' and
a-chewin' his cud...
#RockinBrocket #2021MMM
Every little Sambar,
ev'ry Red Muntjac;
Every frontin' buck
with the ten-tine rack;

The wise old Elk,
the buff brown Roe;
Swingin' their heads,
buglin' go Red go!

#RockinBrocket
#2021MMM
(Fact Check: of these cervids, only muntjac & sambar are found in Borneo) Image
All the little Does
on Cervid Street,
Love to hear the Brocket
go BLEAT BLEAT BLEAT
#RockinBrocket
#2021MMM
None of the monkeys notice the magnificent Red Brocket. #2021MMM
A fan of fungi during the wet season, the Red Brocket takes a shortcut to mushrooms through the primate playgroup, startling the excitable Maroon Langur youngsters #2021MMM
A cacophany of alarm calls erupt from the monkey youngsters as they rush toward their now frantic mothers! #2021MMM
Startled from his dozing, 'the now also vocalising adult male leads the group away for a short distance & the group as a whole freezes' to look back at the Red Brocket enjoying mushrooms (Nijman & Nekaris 2012) #2021MMM pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23363588/
"A short distance" in this case is officially off the field of battle #2021MMM
Well he came out struttin'
& bless this kid,
he out "fought" the monkey
& the mustelid!
#RockinBrocket
#2021MMM
RED BROCKET ROUSTS MAROON LANGUR!!! #2021MMM

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