• Dr Sitaram Swain
• Tapasi upadhyaya

In India, many ethnic communities are dispersed all over the country and these people are still totally depended on local traditional medicinal system for their health care. India is gifted with faunal and floral biodiversity. In ancient days nature was the major source of the ingredients, vital for the preparation of medicines and has been a permanent resource of raw supplies used for treating human diseases. Ethno-zoology is the scientific study of animals for curing diseases by different traditional communities. Earlier man searched for natural foods from their surroundings to have a healthy life. This effort has resulted in selecting a large number of food items by human communities who lived in different parts of the world. The present study was carried out in the tribal regions of Mayurbhanj district. Through this study, documentation of the native knowledge of ethno-zoology to treat familiar human aliments. Now conventional knowledge is developed through the collective experience from many generations to provide a potential reference to utilize faunal species. These are still practiced in several tribal and rural communities for the development of therapeutics. The use of traditional knowledge and ethno-zoological studies in Khunta tribal region of Mayurbhanj districts,Odisha, India were briefly reviewed in this article.

Ethnozoology, Tribes , therapeutics.

"Preliminary Ethno-zoological study in tribal areas of Mayurbhanj district, Orissa, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.974-976, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906E97.pdf

"Preliminary Ethno-zoological study in tribal areas of Mayurbhanj district, Orissa, India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp974-976, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906E97.pdf