There are many anecdotal cases of women in various cultures nursing animals
from other species -- usually orphaned deer or pigs. There's even a photo
of a woman nursing a deer in Jelliffe and Jelliffe.
Each species ideally would get it's own species milk, but human milk is
certainly much better for a monkey than the milk from a VERY distantly
related species such as, say, for example, a COW!!!
Kathy Dettwyler
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