Can humans drink other milk?

Dr. Carlos Rodriguez: Nature intended for milk to be consumed only during weaning stages. Humans are the only mammals to drink another mammal’s milk and drink milk after weaning. Our bodies are not more tolerable or different from other mammals.

What is Flamingo milk?

Parent flamingos produce crop milk, red in colour, in their digestive tracts and regurgitate it to feed their young. Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of the crop, a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion in many birds and invertebrates.

Do flamingos produce milk?

The milk of Greater Flamingos contains much more fat and much less protein than does pigeon milk, and its production is not localized in a crop, but involves glands lining the entire upper digestive tract.

Why do flamingos stab each other in the head?

This looks like one flamingo stabbing another with its beak so the chick can feed on the blood – but it’s not. Both are trying to feed the chick with their red crop milk: a secretion produced in the digestive tract which they regurgitate to feed the young.

What is a pigeon milker?

“Pigeon milk” does exist: it is a type of crop milk, the regurgitated lining that parent birds feed to their young. But “pigeon milker” as pigeon fancier instead is a copy of the Dutch word for nightjar (“geitenmelker”), according to NL Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duivenmelk.

Why do flamingos make each other bleed?

He explained that the two flamingos are actually feeding a chick, and the ‘blood’ or red liquid is actually crop milk. “Parent flamingos produce crop milk in their digestive tracts and regurgitate it to feed young ones,” he wrote.

Can you drink dog milk?

Feeding your baby dog’s milk is not a viable option from a nutritional standpoint. Dog’s, cow’s, or any other animal milk lacks proper nutrients that a human baby needs and you should stick to breast milk or formula unless in case of an absolute emergency.

Can you milk donkeys?

Raw donkey milk is usually sold at farms where donkeys are raised. In the United States, federal law prohibits the transportation of raw milk across state lines. Some larger farms may sell pasteurized donkey milk (5, 6).