I've been doing a lot of research on milk and think a milk thread would be interestingHow do anteaters breastfeed? It's a good question, right? They have no lips. Well apparently they can just squeeze the milk out and lick it up.Well surely anteater milk has to be thick? If it's too watery then it would leak everywhere. It seems their milk is slightly fattier which might indicate a thicker consistency.On the contrary, kangaroos don't even have nipples. Their milk actually changes from watery to custard-like as the joey develops. So maybe consistency isn't important for anteaters either.Whales have weird inverted nipples, and they squirt their ultra rich toothpaste consistency milk into the little whale's mouth. I found this surprising because you'd think they'd accidentally ingest a lot of sea water this way.Human milk is surprisingly sweet. This makes sense because we need the energy for brain development. I almost wonder if it's a reminant of our fruigivore ancestors. It's also quite watery, unsurprisingly perhaps, we do sweat a lot.Dayak fruit bats males can actually produce milk. Although they've not been documented breast feeding, they apparently have fully developed mammaries and produce milk. I don't really understand how the latter got discovered before the former.Typically males don't produce milk because we lack progesterone and our mammaries are underdeveloped for it anyways. Doves don't produce 'milk' exactly but they secrete 'crop milk' to feed their hatchling and that both male and female birds do it. I find it surprising that there has been zero evolutionary adaptations or pressure for mammalian males to retain their mammaries and produce milk too.Please share your thoughts and any facts you may have.My question for you, is what milk from the animal kingdom would you like to try? I'd like Reindeer.(I'll allow non-mammalian exceptions if it's a secretion used for child rearing, e.g cockroach milk.)
>>5038668Im slightly tempted to try pig milk, but it isn't really something i want to go out of my way to do.
>>5038672The effort of doing this to only get a litre or two of milk... must be the nectar of the gods>>5038690I forgot pigs have milk, Apparently their only problem is they're really don't like being milked
>>5038668>>5038672Think about what a sicko the first human was who looked at a cow's udders and thought "I should take a drink for myself"
>>5038668>Human milk is surprisingly sweet. This makes sense because we need the energy for brain development. I almost wonder if it's a reminant of our fruigivore ancestors. It's also quite watery, unsurprisingly perhaps, we do sweat a lot.It's a shame so many roasties are against breast feeding now a days
>>5038725I bet that first guy got hooked on his wife's milk first and found the next best thing.
the pregnant squirrel in my yard has 6 massive rodent bazongas its fuckin crazy, you can see the nips through the fur.
>>5038733If only the squirrels were a bit more human
>>5038731>>5038725There is that webm of a racoon drinking milk from a cat. So really, drinking any milk you get the chance to may be just natural.Humans only specialized in it.
>>5038718I almost tried it, but then I said eh. Maybe if I get the chance to another time I will.
>>5038718pig milk has the best globulization profile of any domestic animal milk for cheesemaking but milking them in a sanitary fashion is almost impossible because they're so low to the ground and so resistant to milking.Human milk is the second best and humans are substantially easier to milk. desu I don't know why there isn't a boutique industry in human breastmilk products. Especially considering most vegans would consider it potentially ethical since adult human females can provide consent. >>5038729you nuts? the boob nazi mommy community has never been more powerful.
>>5038804There is a craigslist for breastmilk, but it is very expensive. Weird fitness people like it I think...
>>5038672Dogfags and mental illness go hand in hand
>>5038823>catschizo when cat people are twice as likely to be schizophrenic>so?>catschizo when he sees a dog larp shitpost on /an/ >dogfags btfo!this is your brain on toxo. sad!
>>5038668Kangaroos do have nipples inside their pouches, four to be exact.Anteaters have lips.Whale milk has a thick, creamy consistency like melted ice cream. Whale nipples have a ring of muscles around them that prevents milk from leaking out before the calf firmly attaches itself to the nipple via forming a vacuum by using it's tongue as a seal.
>>5038830Look at this beast and tell me it has lipsI think I was mixing up kangaroos and monotremes, still, the changing composition of the milk still holds true for them. It starts watery and becomes thicker. They have beaks too so you think they'd have a hard time licking it up.There's a vid of whale nursing:https://youtube.com/shorts/PdjhYg_y4YM?si=9WpTqNcYsvqFmPYd
>>5038668finally some good fucking food(thread)
>>5038725people have been thinking a lot more for a long time
