Editing Milk (section)

===Other animal-based sources===
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Aside from cattle, many kinds of livestock provide milk used by humans for dairy products. These animals include [[Water buffalo#Dairy products|water buffalo]], [[Goat milk|goat]], [[sheep milk|sheep]], [[camel milk|camel]], [[Ass's milk (Donkey's milk)|donkey]], [[horse#Products|horse]], reindeer and yak. The first four respectively produced about 11%, 2%, 1.4% and 0.2% of all milk worldwide in 2011.<ref name=gs12/>

In Russia and Sweden, small [[moose milk|moose dairies]] also exist.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grandell |first1=Tommy |title=Sweden's healthy moose cheese is a prized delicacy |url=https://www.goupstate.com/article/NC/20040707/news/605167766/SJ |access-date=January 24, 2020 |work=GoUpstate |date=July 7, 2004 |language=en |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125184131/https://www.goupstate.com/article/NC/20040707/news/605167766/SJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to the US National Bison Association, [[American bison]] (also called American buffalo) are not milked commercially;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bisoncentral.com/index.php?c=63&d=73&a=1022&w=2&r=Y|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211091834/http://bisoncentral.com/index.php?c=63&d=73&a=1022&w=2&r=Y|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 11, 2006 |title=About Bison: Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=National Bison Association |access-date=August 16, 2009}}</ref> however, various sources report cows resulting from cross-breeding bison and domestic cattle are good milk producers, and have been used both during the European settlement of North America<ref>{{Cite book |last=Allen |first=Joel Asaph |title=History of the American Bison: bison americanus |editor=Elliott Coues, Secretary of the Survey |publisher=Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC |date=June 1877 |series=extracted from the 9th Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey (1875) |pages=585–86 |chapter=Part II., Chapter 4. Domestication of the Buffalo |oclc=991639 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oj04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA585 |access-date=August 16, 2009 |archive-date=September 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903191101/https://books.google.com/books?id=oj04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA585 |url-status=live }}</ref> and during the development of commercial [[Beefalo]] in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=March–April 1981 |title=The Basics of Beefalo Raising |journal=[[Mother Earth News]] |first=George |last=O'Connor |issue=68 |url=http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1981-03-01/The-Basics-of-Beefalo-Raising.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504113756/http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1981-03-01/The-Basics-of-Beefalo-Raising.aspx |archive-date=May 4, 2007 |access-date=February 8, 2011}}</ref>

[[Swine]] are almost never milked, even though [[Pig milk|their milk]] is similar to cow's milk and perfectly suitable for human consumption. The main reasons for this are that milking a sow's numerous small teats is very cumbersome, and that sows cannot store their milk as cows can.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2010/06/22/waarom-drinken-we-de-melk-van-varkens-niet-11909380-a977345 |title=Waarom drinken we de melk van varkens niet? |website=NRC |date=June 22, 2010 |access-date=December 31, 2017 |archive-date=November 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106113242/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2010/06/22/waarom-drinken-we-de-melk-van-varkens-niet-11909380-a977345 |url-status=live |last1=Bronzwaer |first1=Stijn }}</ref> A few pig farms do sell pig cheese as a novelty item; these cheeses are exceedingly expensive.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.plezierindekeuken.nl/nieuw-en-peperduur-kaas-van-varkensmelk/ |title=Nieuw (en peperduur): kaas van varkensmelk{{nbsp}}– Plezier in de Keuken|newspaper=Plezier in de Keuken|date=August 26, 2015|access-date=January 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101083656/https://www.plezierindekeuken.nl/nieuw-en-peperduur-kaas-van-varkensmelk/|archive-date=January 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>