2006-12-13 20:27:15 · 12 answers · asked by the gay bear 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Wow, you've got time on your hands. That is an interesting question, though. I suppose they just observed the young calf suckling off it's mother's teat, and logically deduced that since the teat of the cow protruded out and down that they could extract milk from it by applying a little pressure. When it turned out that the milk was pleasing to the taste, word got around, and it became customary to grasp the teats of female cows to wring out the milk for drinking.
2006-12-14 02:44:22 · answer #1 · answered by Rick R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cow milking was discovered by accident in ancient times. It was first believed that you could communicate with the dead if eight relatives held on to the "handles" and thought nice things about the diceased. Butter was discovered shortly after milk.
2006-12-15 05:22:37 · answer #2 · answered by gbgnick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans have always fed their own babies on milk from a teat, so I guess people observed calves suckling and thriving and realised that this would be a good source of food. So I would think they knew exactly what they were doing when they first tried it, but maybe it took a bit of trial an error to get the technique right.
2006-12-14 04:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by Felida 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Logic would tell me to watch what the calves do to get the milk, and then copy the action.
2006-12-14 04:39:08 · answer #4 · answered by Spoonraker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow! thanks for the two points. i guess God invented cow milk nad i guess he was thinking that the offspring of the cow would drdink the milk for nourishment.
2006-12-14 04:36:07 · answer #5 · answered by somebody's a mom!! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably someone felt in love with a cow, and wanted to touch her ****.
2006-12-14 05:22:53 · answer #6 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet they based upon human milking so they perfectly knew what they where doing. That's when bull milking they didn't knew!
2006-12-14 04:31:22 · answer #7 · answered by Houba houba hop 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cows drip milk from their udders and some animals (hedgehogs for one, IIRC) lick the drops.
2006-12-14 04:32:53 · answer #8 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by watching nature - calfs drink milk. humans drink milk.
2006-12-14 04:39:06 · answer #9 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some great answers here..
..But,,how many times did they try it on the BULL and found it was not to their taste..?
2006-12-14 15:02:23 · answer #10 · answered by knowitall 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋