The mithan is a domestic animal indigenous to parts of India, Burma, and Bangladesh.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

The mithan is a handsome animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

Madrid, Spain (Zoo de la Casa de Campo; mithan-banteng hybrid).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Bangkok, Thailand (Dusit Zoological Park; banteng-mithan hybrid).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

The crosses between mithan and zebu are also encouraged in certain districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

Gaurs excrete an oily, aromatic sweat, unique to this species and to the mithan.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Wild Banteng] Reference

The genetic relationship of mithan to gayal, gaur, and cattle needs to be clarified.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

The gaur interbreeds with the mithan, and both have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 58.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Wild Banteng] Reference

Hybrids resulting from backcrossing mithan with common cattle are also used as work animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

Feral mithan live in the same habitat as gaurs and are said to move equally skillfully in mountainous terrain.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

Although the mithan is now considered a domesticated gaur, many in the past have claimed it as a gaur-cattle hybrid.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

It is a large bovine with massive muscular development, and it has already been domesticated (see mithan, chapter 3).    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Wild Banteng] Reference

This is an unusually gentle animal with a quiet disposition, as revealed in the Chin tribe's expression "gentle as a mithan.".    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

The mithan is potentially an animal that can be used in difficult terrain where most domestic cattle breeds do not perform well.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

Among them are the banteng ( "Bali cattle") of Indonesia, the yak of Central Asia's high country, and the mithan of the border region of India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

The mithan could prove valuable in other parts of the world, and it could be important particularly for the genetic improvement of cattle in the tropics.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

For at least a century, Bhutanese livestock breeders, particularly those in the eastern section, have mated mithan bulls to siri cows (Bos taurus) from India.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

In the hill ranges of Assam, where gaur are still plentiful and interbreeding between mithan and gaur frequently occurs, the mithans are massive and gaurlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

The mithan (Bos frontalis) is believed to be a domesticated form of gaur (see chapter 6). t (However, it resembles the banteng and some authors have proposed that it is a gaur-cattle cross, others a gaur-banteng cross.).    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

But the study expanded to include other possibly useful but obscure bovines of Asia: the madura (a hybrid between banteng and cattle), gaur, mithan, kouprey, anoa, tamaraw, yak, and yakows-hybrids formed by crossing yaks with cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

Although it is believed that the mithan and gayal are the same animal, one of this report's reviewers points out that the mithan of Bhutan are strikingly different in color, body shape, and horn structure from gayals seen in zoos in Europe and India.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference

Observations on the behaviour of the mithan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference