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Around the world, people drink milk from many different animals.

Camels, yaks, reindeer, donkeys, and even moose all give milk that humans drink.

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Around the world, people drink milk from many different animals.
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Cow milk gets all the attention, but it’s just one of many milks people drink around the world. In the Sahara, camel milk is a daily drink - it’s salty, full of vitamin C, and stays fresh longer than cow milk in the desert heat. In the Himalayas, yak milk is so rich it can be churned straight into butter.

In the Arctic, reindeer herders milk their reindeer, even though each one only produces about a cup a day. Reindeer milk is incredibly thick, almost like cream, and packed with fat to survive the cold. Sheep, goat, donkey, and water buffalo milks are common across the Mediterranean and South Asia.

Then there’s the strangest farm of them all: a place in Sweden called the Elk House, which milks moose. Moose are wild, nervous, and slow to milk, so the farm only produces a few hundred litres a year. The cheese made from it sells for more than $1,000 per kilogram, making it some of the priciest cheese on Earth.

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