Tung Tung Tung Sahur

Lignum percussor

A wooden figure with wide eyes and a baseball bat.

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The real science

The creature is invented. These parts are real.

Sahur: In Indonesia, people beat a hollow wooden slit drum called a kentongan before dawn in Ramadan to wake everyone for sahur, the pre-dawn meal. Wikipedia
Wood: Notched logs found at Kalambo Falls in Zambia show deliberate woodworking about 476,000 years ago, before our species existed. Smithsonian Human Origins Program

Print notes

A cylinder with a bat. Prints in an afternoon and stares for years.

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Field data

Habitat: Indonesian streets before dawn
First observed: Early 2025
Diet: Missed alarms
Call: Nine tungs, then “Sahur”
Composition: Log, 1. Bat, 1. Eye contact, constant.

Conservation status

EXEWCRENVUNTLC

Critically overplayed

Field notes

Named for the drumming that wakes people for sahur, the meal before dawn during Ramadan. Lore says that if you miss the call, it comes to your door. The breakout star of the Indonesian branch.