Vitamins of elephant's milk

Milk as a source of lactose, vitamins and minerals.

Milk is an almost complete single food and the more important contributions milk and milk products make to our daily needs for energy, protein, calcium and certain vitamins are summarized in Table I. Besides its general role as an important component of the mixed diets eaten by most of the population, cow's milk has a special value in infant nutrition through serving as the source of most of th...

Vitamins in rat's and in guinea-pig's milk.

THE development of a technique for the satisfactory milking of small laboratory animals [Cox & Mueller, 1937; Temple & Kon, 1937] and the recent progress in the chemical and physical estimation of various vitamins have made it possible to measure several of these factors in the milk of rats and of guinea-pigs. We have examined the milks of both species for vitamin A and carotene, vitamin B1, ri...

Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants

Yellow elephants are slow. A major reason is that they consume their inputs entirely before responding to an elephant rider’s orders. Some clever riders have trained their yellow elephants to only consume parts of the inputs before responding. However, the teaching time to make an elephant do that is high. So high that the teaching lessons often do not pay off. We take a different approach. We ...

Elephants: Reply

Erwin H. Bulte et al. (2003) note that the rules of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ban trade in products from endangered but not extinct species. They argue that governments may therefore have incentives to strategically kill off all their elephants so as to secure the end of the ban on ivory trading. This incentive will be stronger i...

The Influence of the Cow's Diet on the Fat-soluble Vitamins of Winter Milk.