If cows arent milked they can die so how did they remove the milk before being domesticated?
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Cows didn’t exist before being domesticated.
Cows were created by domestication.
The wild ancestors hat we created cows from were called Aurochs and the behaved quite differently than modern cattle.
You may look at some breeds of dog and say to yourself that those could not possible survive in the wild without humans, but the truth is they never existed without humans, what humans created them from were wolves and wolves are much better at surviving in the wild than some completely f’ed up dog breeds.
Aurochs have been extinct for few centuries. The last Aurochs died in Poland shortly after what is now New York was founded in America, so the last of their kind died in relatively modern times, but they were already rare then. Serious scientific studies of the animal were never done, and all we know of them today is from looking at cows and dead Aurochs remains and related species and the accounts from people who lived when they were still around.
Based on that it seems quite clear that Aurochs gave milk just like any other wild animal to feed their young and had no need of it being removed by humans. In fact it seems based on accounts any human stupid enough to go near an Aurochs cow when it had a calf nearby and was ready to give milk, would likely not live to regret that stupidity for long.
They are supposed to have been very aggressive and terrible.
Imagine a modern bullfighter being the equivalent of a person fighting a dog, then a person in the past trying to fight an Aurochs would have been like instead of a dog you would fight a wolf.
Those were not docile creatures.
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