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Science 21 February 1975:
Vol. 187. no. 4177, pp. 657 - 658
DOI: 10.1126/science.1167701
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Science, Vol 187, Issue 4177, 657-658
Copyright © 1975 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Water recycling in lactation

P Baverstock and B Green

During lactation, female rodents, dingoes, and kangaroos consume urine and feces excreted by the young. Studies with tritiated water as a tracer for native water showed that roughly one-third of the water secreted as milk was returned to the mother. The results are cogent to studies of water balance of lactation and to current methods used for estimating milk production.


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