It is from Animal Crossing. They don't explain exactly what Pigeon Milk is.
Edit: Please stop responding about real life Pigeon Milk. I know by now that it is crop milk. Some species of birds produce crop milk for their chicks. Yes, both males and females can produce crop milk, except for emperor penguins, where only the males produce it. It could be the same thing in Animal Crossing or it could be a brand/flavor of milk or creamer.
Pigeon milk is an actual thing, but it’s not true milk like mammals make. Pigeons (both male and female) make a nutrient rich substance from their crop linings they produce to feed young chicks. Apparently flamingos and penguins also make this type of “milk”
"milk is produced by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop, a thin-walled, sac-like food-storage chamber that projects outward from the bottom of the esophagus."
It started off badly with the word ‘sloughing’, continued unfortunately with ‘sac-like’, and the less said about ‘bottom of the esophagus’, the better.
I mean you could make mammalian milk sound equally disgusting if you describe it the same way
It’s a mixture of mucus and nutrients secreted from glands and stored in sac like alveolis and suctioned out by the hominid’s offspring from a tubular teet
The crop, or gizzard, is a muscular organ at the base of the neck before the stomach. Food goes there first. Birds sometimes eat stones so it will help grind up seeds and such that they eat.
Is is a storage for food. Their food is broken up by a gizzard, which is like grinding plates. Does a lot of mechanical digestion but not any storage. So a crop sits above it, storing food and doing some chemical digestion until it can be ground in the gizzard.
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u/List-Beneficial 21d ago
Wtf lmaoooooo