Donkey milk apparently closest to human milk

[TylerDurden]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2887306/Could-DONKEY-MILK-elixir-life.html

[PaleoPhil]

Thanks for that, Tyler.

Donkey milk is similar to mare milk and human breast milk in that it is relatively poor in protein and fat but rich in lactose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_milk

Use of donkey’s milk for a fermented beverage with lactobacilli http://tinyurl.com/pnmsltz

Because horse and donkey milks are so carby, they ferment well. Fermented horse milk (airag, kumis) is a traditional Eurasian beverage going back thousands of years. Some moderners have been rediscovering this ancestral beverage:
http://schnitzelandvegemite.com/2014/09/01/discovering-new-kinds-of-dairy-in-mongolia/