Email Delivery – How Email Can Be Delivered to a Domain Without an MX Record

Somebody has 2 e-mail addresses: bob@domainname.com.br and bob@domainname.com . The DNS records for these domains look like this:

domainname.com.br

$ dig any domainname.com.br
;; ANSWER SECTION:
domainname.com.br.  86179   IN  SOA ns1.domainname.com.br. suporte.domainname.com.br. 2010081200 20000 4000 1409600 86400
domainname.com.br.  86179   IN  MX  10 domainname.com.br.
domainname.com.br.  86179   IN  A   177.39.XXX.YY
domainname.com.br.  85342   IN  NS  ns1.domainname.com.br.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domainname.com.br.  85342   IN  NS  ns1.domainname.com.br.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
domainname.com.br.  86179   IN  A   177.39.XXX.YY
ns1.domainname.com.br.  85342   IN  A   177.39.XXX.YY

domainname.com

$ dig any domainname.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
domainname.com. 37036   IN  SOA ns1.domainname.com.br. mattana.domainname.com.br. 1229685618 10800 3600 604800 38400
domainname.com. 37036   IN  A   177.39.XXX.YY
domainname.com. 37036   IN  NS  ns1.domainname.com.br.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domainname.com. 37036   IN  NS  ns1.domainname.com.br.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.domainname.com.br.  85036   IN  A   177.39.XXX.YY

The domainname.com doesn't have a MX record. However, when I send an e-mail to bob@domainname.com, it gets delivered, and the receiver reply using the bob@domainname.com.br address. The e-mail sent to bob@domainname.com is probably being redirected to bob@domainname.com.br. How is this possible, given that domainname.com doesn't have a MX record?