As regards Carla's mention of her  statuette of cross-species breastfeeding:  I used to have a poster from Papua New Guinea, with a stylized sketch of a mother with her baby on one breast and a pig on the other.  When I was given the poster, I was told that it reflected a well-known village practice.  Nourishing the family's most valuable economic resource, the piglet, was a priority in traditional villages, and if the piglet needed milk, it got it - breastmilk.
    I'm not sure if these piglets came from large litters, too many piglets for the number of teats on the sow, or whether they were taken from the sow too early.
    Virginia
     in Brisbane

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