CR_0140_long_tailed_macaque.md

creatures/CR_0140_long_tailed_macaque.md

CR_0140 — the long-tailed macaque, the precinct troop that reads the wards first

CANON SUBORDINATION — this document is PROPOSAL-TIER: it serves canon and never outranks it.

The canon: the CVD · the T1 foundation docs · the T0 registries (registries/) · the spine

(docs/spine/CH_*.md) · the region pages (_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/). Authority order: docs/DOC_MAP.md § 0.

Canon served (scanned from this document's own citations — widen it by hand where it is thin):

T0_Creature_Roster · docs/spine/CH_05.md · _source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.md

READ THAT CANON FIRST — open it and derive from it before you build anything from this document.

If this document disagrees with canon, CANON WINS and this document is the defect — fix the

document, never the canon. Nothing here is applied until it is ratified into canon.

STATUS: PROPOSAL-TIER design sheet, written to docs/proposals/bestiary/BESTIARY_ELEVATION_DOCTRINE.md

and critic-gated against its ten refusal tests. It cites canon rows and writes none.

1. identity

• canon_id: CR_0140
• canon_name: Long-tailed macaque — the angkor_khmer temple-precinct cohort of Macaca fascicularis
• chapter: CH_05 · region angkor_khmer · sites angkor_wat (the causeway and gallery approaches) and

bayon_taprohm (the face-tower galleries and the root-split enclosure)

• species_class: mammal · tier_classification AMBIENT · trade_8_tameable OBSERVE
• ontology_class: ORDINARY_FAUNA · combat_permission PERMITTED · temperament_prior bold
• collect_verb DOCUMENT · dex_completion_class OBSERVATION_CHAIN
• care_tier: standard (CH_05.md:12), with a WORLD-RULE cost the row itself authors (§ 7)
• anatomy bucket: ARBOREAL_PRIMATE / cercopithecoid

[build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/ARBOREAL_PRIMATE.json; ANATOMY_REFERENCE.md], which names

this row as an exemplar

• register: REAL_FAUNA (TRUE_TO_LIFE), doctrine § 3D — declared on the elevation block's face at § 4 ·

combat-facing TRUE

• primary_axis: A5 age and state, spent as PRECINCT HABITUATION
• rows_read: T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0140, CR_0003 · docs/spine/CH_05.md L12, L99-101, L162,

L246 · angkor_khmer.md § 3 L173-191 · CREATURE_DEMAND_RULED_STATE_L11.json CH_05 ·

build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/ARBOREAL_PRIMATE.json cercopithecoid ·

docs/proposals/bestiary/sheets/CR_0003_crab_eating_macaque.md

THE PERMISSION QUESTION, SETTLED ON THE LIVE ROW BEFORE ANYTHING IS DESIGNED. The landed CR_0003

sheet describes this row as "OBSERVE-only and combat_permission PROTECTED" at L30-31, repeats it in

its care_read at L102 and again in its boarded_debts at L118, and this row's own notes cell repeats

"combat_permission PROTECTED" inside a split-rationale paragraph. All four are STALE. The live cell reads PERMITTED, and the row's cultural_care_register cell

rules the reading in its own words: PERMITTED with a WORLD-RULE cost, not an engine flag — inside the

temple precinct this is a standing and integrity hit, the community reacts on sight, and the quest

lines that run through those people remember it; §17.1 is COLLECTIVE and is framing-level protection

of a community, never a claim about game animals; an animal cannot be harder-protected than a person

[T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0140 :: cultural_care_register]. The "non-huntable" phrase elsewhere in

notes resolves as a DROP-TABLE posture — rng_drop_anchor withheld, no materials reward — and not

as a prohibition, exactly as CR_0133 carries the same pair. Permitted, costly, and unrewarded. That

reading governs this sheet, and the stale statements are reported as findings (the full inventory of

five sites is in § 9), not edited here.

2. base_species

DERIVED FROM THE ANATOMY REFERENCE TABLE, NOT DECLARED INLINE. The per-archetype table is on disk and

this row is one of its named exemplars, so the doctrine § 2.1 inline-licence no longer applies here:

the block below is re-derived from build/3d/schema/anatomy_reference/ARBOREAL_PRIMATE.json sub-plan

cercopithecoid. Where the bucket is silent, the line is labelled INLINE_DECLARED. THE BRACHIATOR

INHERITANCE IS DROPPED: an earlier draft of this sheet carried a 180-degree shoulder copied forward

from the CR_0003 sheet, and the bucket's own note rules it out — a monkey's overhead reach is real

but LIMITED, and it is the hominoid sub-plan that roughly doubles the abduction.

• binomial: Macaca fascicularis
• archetype: ARBOREAL_PRIMATE / cercopithecoid — the only archetype whose hands AND feet both grasp,

and the only mammal in the table that walks in diagonal sequence.

• rig conformance (bucket): minimum 70 deform bones, a spine chain of at least 6, two arm and two leg

chains of at least 4 bones each, ten hand-digit chains of at least 3 and ten foot-digit chains of at

least 2, clavicle_L and clavicle_R REQUIRED, opposable hallux required, gait sequence diagonal.

• segments (bucket): five digits on the hand and five on the foot; a DIVERGENT AND OPPOSABLE hallux,

because the foot grasps and a primate rigged with a human foot cannot hold a branch or a coping;

an opposable pollex, short relative to the fingers; a clavicle PRESENT and load-bearing, so this

shoulder is strutted rather than slung; a long tail used in balance; and the scapula LATERAL on the

ribcage, which is the reason the shoulder is built for fore-aft swing and not for overhead reach.

Cheek pouches are a visible loaded volume (INLINE_DECLARED).

• declared ROM (bucket): glenohumeral flexion/extension -60 to +140 degrees, abduction 0 to +110,

axial rotation -60 to +60 [FLEAGLE2013, LARSON1998]; elbow flexion 0 to +145 with FULL

pronosupination -80 to +90, which is the defining primate forelimb capability and separates this

plan from every other quadruped in the table [FLEAGLE2013]; hip flexion/extension -30 to +120,

abduction 0 to +60, axial rotation -45 to +45; knee 0 to +140; first metatarsophalangeal (hallux)

abduction 0 to +60 and flexion/extension -40 to +30, which is the grasping axis and without it

there is no arboreal locomotion [SCHULTZ1963, FLEAGLE2013]. The jaw's open-mouth threat is a

display and not a bite (INLINE_DECLARED).

• gait (bucket): DIAGONAL SEQUENCE — LH, RF, RH, LF — which primates alone do habitually and which is

why a macaque built on a dog's lateral-sequence cycle reads subtly wrong; duty factor 0.5 to 0.75

[CARTMILL2002, HILDEBRAND2001]. The clip set is named against Hunt et al. 1996: quadrupedal walk

and run, vertical climb, leap, suspensory arm-swing, sit, squat, bipedal stand. The bucket's solver

note binds this row hardest of the five — genuine IK on four grasping end-effectors plus a balance

tail, onto arbitrary dressed-stone surfaces.

• mass and stance: light and fast, quadrupedal on the flagstones and vertical on any dressed edge;

the troop moves as a distributed mass with no single centre to read.

• resting silhouette: a compact seated primate on a balustrade coping, tail hanging as a long line

below the stonework — which is how the player will first see thirty of them at once

3. lore_source

• NO LIVING-TRADITION CLAIM ATTACHES TO THIS ANIMAL and the row makes none: ontology_class is

ORDINARY_FAUNA and no folklore attribution is carried. What the row DOES carry is a place —

the temple macaques of Angkor's galleries and forest, habituated commensals of the sacred precinct

[T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0140 :: cultural_significance].

• THE CARE THAT APPLIES BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE, NOT TO THE ANIMAL. The precinct is full of protected

non-targets — the temple servants and dancers, the priesthood, the farmers and market people

[CH_05.md:246] — and Ta Prohm's own foundation stele records tens of thousands of temple servants

[CH_05.md:101]. The animal is not protected; the room is populated, and that is the whole design of

the cost.

• PROVENANCE, DECLARED RATHER THAN PAPERED OVER: the row's source_ref cites angkor_khmer § 3, and

that section (L173-191) names no macaque — it states that the page CONSUMES the roster rows the

spine already staged. The row's own notes cell records this dangle for the whole CR_0133-CR_0150

cohort and asks for a director ruling. This sheet therefore grounds its staging on the roster row

and on the spine's site rows for angkor_wat and bayon_taprohm [CH_05.md:99, L101], and claims no

region-page attestation it does not have.

4. elevation

register: REAL_FAUNA (TRUE_TO_LIFE) — doctrine § 3D, ratified 2026-08-12.

WHY ELEVATION IS REFUSED, IN ONE LINE: this row's folklore columns are empty, canon stages no

supernatural claim on it, and the chapter's whole care architecture rests on the naga being the only

mythologically-stylized water-serpent in the region [CH_05.md:267, L330] — a supernatural macaque in

that chapter is the mirror image of the Komodo defect.

THE LEGIBILITY CONTRACT, which is half of how the replica test discharges in this register. This row

is the STONE read of the chapter's two-read discrimination system, and it is stated identically on

every sheet that carries it: a troop leaving the high line of a gallery answers to the WARDS ROUSING

and never to water. Its confusable neighbour is not another primate — there is none in the chapter —

it is its own earlier self at CR_0003, and the discrimination there is silhouette-plus-state:

CR_0003's Bali form is a lean cliff animal on limestone, this cohort is a heavier, glossier animal on

dressed sandstone with polished pads and one banded individual. Same species, two readable places.

THE STATE LADDER, which is the other half. Forest-typical, provisioned-habituated, and

precinct-resident, and this cohort is the third rung: body condition heavier and coat glossier than a

forest troop's, palms and callosities stone-polished pale, old males' canines worn blunt and chipped

on stone rather than wood, and carried human debris accumulating on individuals with the bandolier as

its terminal state. A photograph of a species-typical Macaca fascicularis contains none of that

ladder, which is what the register requires of it.

ONE-LINE SILHOUETTE READ: a macaque sitting on a temple balustrade holding ground it should not hold,

with a strip of somebody's cloth worn under one arm that will never come off.

ELEVATION BUDGET: TWO AXES, A5 AND A9, WHICH ARE THIS REGISTER'S OWN NATURAL SPEND. This is AMBIENT

ordinary fauna, and inflating it is the mirror image of the defect the doctrine exists to fix. What it

gets instead is a STATE, a MARK and a JOB.

PRIMARY — A5 AGE AND STATE, spent as PRECINCT HABITUATION. MECHANISM: generations of commensal life on

human surplus, lived on dressed sandstone.

• Body condition is heavier than a forest troop's and the coat is glossier, because a provisioned

population is a fatter one — a real and visible consequence, and the first thing that separates this

cohort from CR_0003's Flores form at a glance.

• The palms, the digital pads and the ischial callosities are stone-polished — smooth, pale, shining

where a forest animal's are matte and split. The precinct is written on the parts that touch it.

• The old males' canines are worn blunt and chipped, because display on stone is not display on wood.
• Individuals carry human debris with real sockets in the fur: a strip of cloth, a length of cord, a

bead. That is the same reading CR_0003's Bali cliff troop carries in a different key, and it is

deliberately the same, because it is the same species doing the same thing in a richer place.

SUPPORTING — A9 THE MARK, and it sits on ONE INDIVIDUAL. The troop's escalating male wears a strip of

offering-cloth as a bandolier under one arm, snagged there long enough that the fur has grown around

it. One high-contrast band on one animal, readable across a gallery at any distance, and it is how a

player learns that the troop has a leader and which one it is. One mark, no second.

THE JOB, AND IT IS THE PART NO PHOTOGRAPH CONTAINS. This troop reads the temple's wards before any

person does. When the court official's faction perverts the wards and the stone guardians rouse

[CH_05.md:162], the macaques abandon that gallery first — they go up, they go quiet, and they go in a

direction.

THE RESIDENTS-LEAVE SHAPE, AND ITS DISCRIMINATOR, RULED. The shape is THE LANE'S, established on

CR_0005 at the Ch-2 fed spring and not the doctrine's: residents vacate in a direction and the

direction is a free early-warning system. The lesson is the same one that sheet taught — something

larger is coming — and it is repeated deliberately, three chapters later, inside a stone city. THE

DISCRIMINATOR, stated identically on all four CH_05 sheets that carry the shape: A WATER READ ANSWERS

TO WATER AND A STONE READ ANSWERS TO STONE. This troop's departure answers to the wards rousing and

NEVER to a crocodile; the monitor going in (CR_0146) and the otter troupe's alarm chorus (CR_0148)

answer to CR_0133 coming up and never to a ward. One shape, two answers, and the medium is the tell

that keeps them apart.

EMISSION: none.

5. articulation_delta

• Nothing is added to the skeleton. The blob test passes with no additions to name.
• The carried debris is an attachment set with declared sockets in the shoulder and flank fur and real

physical properties, never painted texture, because the theft mechanic requires the taken thing to

be an object that can be dropped, chased and recovered.

• The bandolier strip has a declared anchor — under the left forelimb, over the shoulder — so it is in

the same place on every plate and every mesh and the player can learn it.

• The stone-polished pads are a material state on existing geometry, not new geometry.

6. fight_grammar

THE ENCOUNTER VERBS, WITH THEIR PROVENANCE SPLIT: CR_0140 carries no boss row and no attack-rail

rows. TAKE DERIVES from cells — temperament_prior is bold and collect_verb is DOCUMENT with

dex_completion_class OBSERVATION_CHAIN, which together describe an animal that approaches and takes

rather than one that is taken. MOB DERIVES FROM NO CELL and is THIS SHEET'S MINT, coined for the

escalation shape below; § 7's invention declaration already names the mob shape as invented and § 6

now agrees with it. The part-economy home is NONE on the body, affirmatively — nothing on this animal

breaks, and the encounter's real currency is the taken object, which has no schema home (§ 9).

• ON THE COUNTER-CLASS COLUMN. Every shape here answers to POSITION AND TIMING and none presents a

meetable contact surface, so all five map to the ruled DODGE class rather than to a fourth token

this sheet has no authority to mint. The timing nuance is real and it lives in prose: the first two

shapes are answered by a hand moving before the commit, the third and fourth by choosing between

the climb and the trade, and only the fifth is a whole-body withdrawal in the ordinary dodge sense.

• CROSS-CREATURE LESSON, NAMED, AND NOW TRUE ON ITS FACE: the first four shapes are identical to

CR_0003's and carry identical answers — the belt-target angle, the one-beat freeze, the vertical

exit answered by the climb, and the open trade answered by the offer. Same species, same grammar,

and the game does not teach a second dialect for the same animal. What is NEW here is the fifth

shape and the room it happens in.

• NO PARRY SURFACE AND NO ELEMENTAL GATHER EXIST ON THIS CREATURE, stated affirmatively. The sheet

claims no contact counter it cannot show.

• ESCALATION ON FOUR CHANNELS. POSTURE: they come DOWN — an arboreal animal choosing the ground is the

announcement, and it is legible from anywhere in the gallery. BREATH: the open-mouth threat with the

brow raised and ears flattened, held. VOCALIZATION: the alarm-bark chorus, which spreads along the

troop faster than the troop moves. NEW OPENER: after escalation the opener is the mob, not the

angle — the taking is over and the holding has started.

• OPENER AND VARIANTS. The angle is the root, and its dangerous variants are the same body origin with

more bodies: two angles converging, then the mob, which is the angle run by six.

• RELOCATION AND TURF. The troop owns the high line — coping, lintel, corbel, the false-door head —

and it uses the architecture's own routes rather than the player's. It leaves a gallery upward and

it returns within the beat, which makes the arena change character while the player watches.

• AGENCY. The ward-read in § 4 is the agency proof: the troop is doing something that is not about the

player, and a player who learns to watch them gets the rouse before the constructs give it to them.

7. care_read

• COLLECTIVE READ: nothing engaged BY THE ANIMAL. ORDINARY_FAUNA carries no collective claim and this

sheet does not re-apply collective protection to a game animal. The collective protection that IS

live in the room protects the Khmer community, the temple servants and the priesthood from being

cast as villains or targets [CH_05.md:246], and this design never puts them in the target position.

• THE WORLD-RULE COST IS THE ROW'S OWN AND IT IS NOT A SOFTENING. Killing a macaque on the causeway is

permitted; it is also seen. Standing drops, integrity moves, the community reacts on sight, and the

quest lines that run through those people remember it [`T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0140 ::

cultural_care_register`]. Nothing is blocked, nothing is refused, and the world answers — which is

the project's own definition of mature violence: weight and consequence, never absence.

• ONTOLOGY ROUTING: ORDINARY_FAUNA, combat_permission PERMITTED, collect_verb DOCUMENT,

dex_completion_class OBSERVATION_CHAIN. The taming axis is OBSERVE, which is watched-never-taken and

is a statement about the TRADE, not about facing — this row is combat-facing on the ruled demand

table and the two cells do not conflict.

• ROUTE: ordinary asset path with a plate, shared in body with CR_0003 and distinguished by state.

Nothing here is identity-bearing beyond the banded individual, which takes the plate.

• ANTI-TIMID PASS, RECORDED. The reduction considered was the one the two stale statements assert:

making the precinct kill impossible by setting combat_permission PROTECTED, on the theory that a

sacred precinct should refuse it. REFUSED, on the row's own words — an animal cannot be

harder-protected than a person, and §17.1 is framing-level protection of a community and never a

claim about game animals. The cost is the correct tool and it is already authored.

• CITATION-SEARCH POSITIVE CONTROL, STATED AFFIRMATIVELY: the search ran over

_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/angkor_khmer.md and matched SRC_00322 at L44 and throughout § 5,

§ 13 and § 14 — the page's ONLY SRC_ id across 1383 lines. The matcher works, and no SRC_ id on the

page reaches this row, which is why every claim here is cited to file:line or to the registry cell.

• INVENTION DECLARATION: the ward-read scatter, the bandoliered escalating male, the stone-polished

pads, the mob shape and the four escalation channels are INVENTED BY THIS SHEET as the game's own

design. The anatomy is DERIVED FROM THE ANATOMY BUCKET (ARBOREAL_PRIMATE / cercopithecoid) and the

open-mouth threat and the alarm chorus are INLINE_DECLARED where that bucket is silent. The

precinct cohort, the habituated-commensal reading, the permission, the world-rule cost, the OBSERVE

taming grade and the withheld drop anchor are CITED to the row.

• REVEAL READ: clean.

8. plate_brief

• PLATE A, the troop in the room: twenty of them along a gallery balustrade in flat monsoon light,

tails hanging below the coping, the stonework carrying the frame.

• PLATE B, the banded male: one individual seated three-quarter, the offering-cloth strip worn under

the left forelimb with the fur grown around it, glossy provisioned condition, stone-polished palms

turned up on the knees.

• PLATE C, the mob: five on the flagstones at once, spread laterally, open-mouth threat, weight

forward, the banded male at the middle of the line.

• PLATE D, the read: the same gallery showing bare flagstones and stonework, the troop going up and

away along the high line in one direction, the ward-stone in frame behind them.

9. boarded_debts

• combat_permission on this row reads PERMITTED while FOUR OTHER SURFACES SAY PROTECTED, and the

inventory is named in full so a repair lane can sweep it in one pass: (1) this row's own notes

cell, inside its split-rationale paragraph; (2) the landed CR_0003 sheet at L30-31; (3) the same

sheet at L102, in its care_read; (4) the same sheet at L118, in its boarded_debts. A fifth

repetition landed in this same wave on a sibling lane's CR_0145_asian_elephant_angkor.md

boarded_debts. One live cell, five stale statements, and the governing reading is the row's own

cultural_care_register. The notes prose wants a registry-lane repair; the four sheet sites want a

sheet-lane pass; neither is edited from here.

• PERMITTED-but-unrewarded (permission granted, rng_drop_anchor withheld, a standing and integrity

cost applied) is a real cohort-wide design posture shared with CR_0133 and it has NO column. A lane

filtering on combat_permission alone cannot see it.

• The world-rule cost has no data home either: no column joins a creature row to

ws.community_state_per_region, standing, or integrity, and the whole rule currently lives in a

cultural_care_register free-text cell.

• The theft-and-trade interaction still has no registry home, raised on CR_0003 and unresolved.
• source_ref cites angkor_khmer § 3, which names no macaque. The cohort-wide provenance dangle the

row's notes cell flags is unresolved and wants the director ruling it asks for.

• height_m, length_axis, kit_ref and mesh_id_ref are EMPTY while generation_status is

pending.

• NO § 10 physical_profile BLOCK IS AUTHORED ON THIS SHEET, and the gap is named rather than left

silent. The CR_0002 template ruled the block in on 2026-08-06 and requires a MEASURED

enclosed_volume_m3 read off a shipped mesh at canon scale. This row's generation_status is

pending and mesh_id_ref is EMPTY, so the measured leg cannot be taken and a guessed volume would

poison harness/asset_factory/emit_creature_physical.py at its source. Deferred to the mesh

landing, with the § 2 ROM table already re-derived from the anatomy bucket and ready to carry into

§ 10.2.

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