{"id":17152,"date":"2023-09-14T18:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17152"},"modified":"2023-09-14T18:07:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:37:48","slug":"mithun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/14-09-2023\/mithun","title":{"rendered":"Mithun\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus :GS 3\/Species in news<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mithun bovine has been classified as a food animal by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>About Mithun\u00a0<\/strong><br><\/span><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/9b_Lst0f5GAqlg_V2D4-8xrGesZQoTHDccSVczJeYeYIxLz1qRN7BTA_IPm_lOVG3zFIvVdfdu-tUcjjBrWTyaIhPU0ngwVQjDqlhDIZel7tcqb6JBOoyBr__Gs_bl5-MFOikChonYxBvU-4mcXF5Us\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Scientific Name <\/strong>: Bos frontalis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a <strong>semi-domesticated bovine species<\/strong> and plays an important role in the socio economic and cultural fabric of the tribal population.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Habitat and Distribution : <\/strong>It prefers a cool climate and avoids bright sunlight.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The highest concentration of mithuns in the world is spread over the North Eastern (NE) region of India .\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It is the state animal of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland and is primarily reared for meat in community farms.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is also found in parts of Southeast Asia viz. Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India has a mithun population of around <strong>390,000,<\/strong> according to the 2019 livestock census.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus :GS 3\/Species in news In News The Mithun bovine has been classified as a food animal by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India. About Mithun\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17153,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152\/revisions\/17153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}