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As much as 11 percent of the world's milk production is domestic buffalo milk (goats are in third place with 2 percent). Buffalo milk contains more fat and protein than cow's milk, so more cheese and butter can be made from it. The largest producers of buffalo milk are India and Pakistan. 1)
Humans likely began drinking milk on their own, based on the experience gained from feeding newborns. Since mother's milk provides babies with rapid growth and development, it can provide it to anyone. At least that's what the people living at Lake Turkana in Kenya thought about 12,000 B.C. Since donkeys, cows, and goats were already domesticated, this moment can be considered the first time humans drank milk from another species. 2)
Cleopatra, famous for her beauty, supposedly owed her allure to her daily bath in sour donkey milk. 3)
Milk is the only product that contains all the essential nutrients for survival.4)
Drinking milk in the 1960s was recommended by Batman himself 5)
Cow's milk takes about one to three hours to digest, goat's only 20 minutes. 6)