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	Males Can Lactate

balthazarus

4-20-2009 11:02 AM

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4-20-2009 12:09 PM

chestnut501

I didn't really want to know that.....

4-20-2009 1:45 PM

Anomaly100

Whoa! Too much information...

4-20-2009 1:47 PM

Anomaly100

Cont'd: I read Anna Karenina twice and somehow don't remember that part!:

Tolstoy, where, in Anna Karenina, there is a short anecdote of a baby suckling an Englishman for sustenance while on board a ship.

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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-males-can-lactate">More recently, Agence France-Presse reported a short piece in 2002 on a 38-year-old man in Sri Lanka who nursed his two daughters through their infancy after his wife died during the birth of her second child</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-males-can-lactate">Males of many different mammalian species have the potential to lactate, although only one, the Dayak fruit bat of Southeast Asia, does so spontaneously</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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