Beth Shapiro

Yes.

Yeah, I was there during the summer, though, so there wasn't snow on the ground.

It was all just a very grassy, wet, super wet grassy, and the moisture in the ground is probably why there are so many mosquitoes.

Yeah.

And milk them.

Yeah.

I mean, they're great, right?

Animals have always been a really great storage mechanism.

That's one of the hypotheses about animal domestication.

Why did this take place?

If we had plants, but there are going to be years where there's plenty to eat and years where there's not enough to eat.

But in those years where there's plenty, if you store some of that nutrition in animals, then in the years where there's less, you can eat those animals.

So it's a very safe way of storing what you can grow.

Right.

I think that about a lot of domestic animals.

I also think that about milk.

Who was the first person who decided?

I can have a go at that, you know?

Yeah, some of them are trying to tell you, though, by being like bright red or bright purple.

But we're dumb.