mithan
IPA: mˈɪθʌn
noun
- ox of southeast asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur
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Examples of "mithan" in Sentences
- Madrid, Spain (Zoo de la Casa de Campo; mithan-banteng hybrid)
- Bangkok, Thailand (Dusit Zoological Park; banteng-mithan hybrid)
- Gaurs excrete an oily, aromatic sweat, unique to this species and to the mithan.
- The mithan is a domestic animal indigenous to parts of India, Burma, and Bangladesh.
- The gaur interbreeds with the mithan, and both have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 58.
- It is a large bovine with massive muscular development, and it has already been domesticated (see mithan, chapter 3).
- This is an unusually gentle animal with a quiet disposition, as revealed in the Chin tribe's expression "gentle as a mithan."
- The Bhutanese government is establishing a national dairy-mithan breeding program, which could result in a valuable dairy animal.
- The mithan is a grazing animal, but in some areas herds are allowed to browse freely in the woods; some return to the villages for protection at night, while others remain largely in the forests.
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