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By about 3500 B.C.E., humans appear to have been milking early domestic horses, a delicate process, which is evidence that the animals were already quite tame.

From Scientific American • Mar. 3, 2023

“The Browns gave me my chance. If it hadn’t been for baseball, I’d have been milking cows.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2017