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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Photo: Horse Taming, Milking Started in Kazakhstan


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A mare is milked in a traditional village in northern Kazakhstan.

People on the steppes of what is now Kazakhstan were the first to domesticate horses and even used them for milk, a March 2009 study suggests.

Photograph courtesy of Alan K. Outram

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