Why We Never Drink Donkey Milk, Cleopatra's Beauty Secret?

Cleopatra supposedly bathed in donkey milk, yet you will never find it next to the cow's milk at your supermarket. So why don't we drink donkey milk? The answer runs through five reasons: a donkey makes only a liter or two a day, her small udder holds very little at once, she only lets milk down when her foal is close, no big dairy industry was ever built around donkeys, and the price. The last reason is not about donkeys at all, it is about us. You will see what the Cleopatra story really is (a legend, with the Roman writer Pliny linking the milk baths to Poppaea instead), how milk let-down works, why a Serbian donkey cheese can cost around a thousand euros a kilo, and how our shopping habits decide which animals fill our fridges. Where a number is an estimate, the video says so. If you like everyday questions explained simply, subscribe to Darnlo for more. #DonkeyMilk #AnimalFacts #Darnlo