Here's a little whale trivia from "Breastfeeding at a Glance: Facts,
Figures and Trivia about Lactation:"

"Whales need to preserve their sleek, hydrodynamically efficient shape. The
mother's milk glands are below her thick blubber layer. The inside location
also protects the milk from cold. The baby nudges the area and milk--thick
as cream--spurts out. A baby Pacific gray whale can drink 80 pounds of
breastmilk a day."

And from a table comparing percent protein and percent fat in the milk of
various mammals:

Human: .9% protein, 3.8% fat
Blue whale: 11.9% protein, 40.9% fat

Michels, D., Good Mojab, C., and Bar-Yam, N. Breastfeeding at a Glance:
Facts, Figures and Trivia about Lactation. Washington, DC: Platypus Media,
2001.

I'm wondering if the baby whale's technique could be called "nose
expression."

Still nomail, but obviously sneaking into the LACTNET archives rather
frequently of late,

Cynthia

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS Clinical Psychology
(Breastfeeding mother, advocate, independent [cross-cultural] researcher
and author; LLL Leader and Research Associate in the LLLI Publications
Department; and former psychotherapist currently busy nurturing her own
little one.)
Ammawell
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