Mithun

A large bovine, Bos frontalis, also called the gayal or Drung ox, kept in the Himalayan foothills of the Indian subcontinent and chiefly in Northeast India; its own Wikipedia lead describes it as semi-domesticated rather than fully domesticated. First classified in 1804 by Aylmer Bourke Lambert as an independent member of the genus Bos, it is now understood, per a 2020 phylogenetic study, to descend matrilineally from the gaur along with contributions from zebu and taurine cattle, with domestication estimated at more than 8,000 years ago along the Assam-Burma border. Mithun are reared for meat, milk and ceremonial purposes and carry major economic, social and cultural importance among many ethnic groups across their range, where owning them signals prosperity and high social status and they are traditionally used as a form of currency.