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Cows are mammals, just as we are (and cats, dogs, elephants, wolves, mice...).

This is what a mammal is (definition from Dictionary.com):

any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.

The part about "nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands" describes why the female of all mammal species, including our own, make milk: it's to feed our babies.

(Mammary glands...mammal...there's a connection.)

It so happens that we as a human species have found ways to gather and use the milk of some other animals: cows, goats, camels, yaks, and more. But the reason they have the milk to give is that their bodies make it in order to feed their own young. ---- Primarily to feed their calves, but after the calves stop suckling.

If the cow is then milked regularly she will carry on producing milk.

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