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Date: | Sat, 29 Jan 2000 23:08:41 EST |
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This morning my 6 year old daughter, who understands the idea that every
mammal's milk is species-specific and has asked before about some of the
differences between human milk and cows' milk, asked me how human milk
compares to other primate milks. She wondered specifically about our near
neighbors -- chimpanzees and gorillas.
Anybody know? Are they closer to ours than the ruminants' milks are, as one
might expect? Any data -- or even impressions based on any field work or
whatever -- would be welcome, to me and to Avital.
Please note that I am asking this WHOLLY to satisfy scientific curiousity,
with no imagining that there are clinical implications -- I am happy for a
number of reasons
NOT to be able to imagine dairy herds of chimpanzees...
Elisheva Urbas, in NYC
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