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Enjoy the Antecdotes, Personal Stories, & Interesting Experiences & Insights of Lactation

This page is a forum to express views, post stories and interesting experiences, and to discuss current research and ideas regarding lactation. We have certainly been a long time coming, haven't we?!

That we know of, there has never been such an all-encompassing space to celebrate the diversity, value, the art and the science, and indeed the organic magic of life-giving lactation.

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Strange Lactation Species Diversity: The Story of the "Milk Snake"

Local to the Nogales Lactation Museum is, of course, the Milk Snake, Lampropeltis triangulum, a species of king snake. There are several interesting facts to ponder here. First of all, it is important to note that there are 24 types of milk snake though, misleadingly, only 23 actually lactate. Also, as the greater species name indicates, it is a “king” snake which is the first clue that it is the males, not the females, of the species that lactate. The lactating glands are lo