Vitamins of elephant's milk

FOLLOWING the birth of an elephant at the Warsaw Zoological Garden in June 1937 (the twelfth recorded case in Europe), a study of the chemical composition of elephant's milk was undertaken by Dr J. Kr6likowski of the Department of Genetics and Animal Dietetics of the School of Agriculture, Warsaw.The present paper describes the results of a comparison of the vitamin content of the milk, supplied to us by Dr Kr6likowski, with that of cow's milk.The samples of milk were taken periodically over the term of a year, commencing 8 weeks after parturition, one teat being milked while the calf was sucking another; the milk was delivered at the laboratory within an hour of milking.