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THERE have been many studies of the milk fat of ruminants1, but few of the milk fat of non-ruminant herbivores2. The control of elephant (Loxodonta africana) populations in Uganda gave one of us (K. G. McC.) an opportunity of obtaining milk from a number of cow elephants at various stages of lactation immediately after they had been killed. We report here the fatty acid composition of the milk fat, which is quite unlike that of any milk so far examined. A complete report of our analyses will be published elsewhere.
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MCCULLAGH, K., LINCOLN, H. & SOUTHGATE, D. Fatty Acid Composition of Milk Fat of the African Elephant. Nature 222, 493–494 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222493a0
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