Tens of thousands of baby dairy calves are dying in South Africa because - as males - they will never produce milk and are considered to be a waste product. Just one of these calves can be seen on our video clip. At first, people think the calf’s antics are funny, until they realise that the starving calf is desperate to stimulate the let-down reflex so that milk can flow and he can drink. Calves nudge the udder of their mothers with their heads in order to stimulate the let-down reflex. For …

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