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The National Pig Association estimates 60% of UK sows are kept on indoor pig units and the majority of them give birth and suckle their piglets in farrowing crates.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2022

When he was first taken from Menari, Roux — who wasn’t yet named — couldn’t even suckle, said Forbes.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

Meanwhile, Love Shaiska was struggling to suckle, forcing her parents to pull together cash to buy formula.

From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2021

There was no guarantee that the other mothers would protect Lucy, much less allow her to suckle, as that would mean fewer precious nutrients for their own calves.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2021

Human wet nurses to suckle sickly faerie infants.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

President Volodymyr Zelensky has been heeding a wise Ukrainian proverb: A gentle calf suckles two mothers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As the baby suckles at the breast, it picks up more microbes from its mother’s skin.

From Nature ● Mar. 6, 2018

The baby is put to the breast and suckles from a slender tube attached to the breast that delivers breast milk that someone else has pumped.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2018

When the infant suckles, sensory nerve fibers in the areola trigger a neuroendocrine reflex that results in milk secretion from lactocytes into the alveoli.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Nobbles obliges, old pardner, and great is the power of "form"; Rads may rail at "the clarses" like ginger, but all on us likes to be "warm," And rub shoulders with suckles more shiny.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 by Various

I stared at Noah’s bobbing Adam’s apple as he suckled at his bottle.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

“There is no food or water. Sometimes I have nothing to give the kids,” she said as her 14-month-old suckled on her deflated breast.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

I watched as a ewe suckled two lambs that she had adopted in this way.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

Then all of them going out from the dungeon took their pleasure; I suckled my child that was now faint with hunger.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

There’s always babies to be born and suckled and wiped, and worried over.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

But a pregnant or suckling female is especially ravenous and will continue to forage for two for up to 1 year after giving birth.

From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024

After clinical assessments, parents were provided the opportunity to introduce the modified pacifier for a 60 second measurement of their infant's intraoral suckling vacuum.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024

In 2015, a research team from two U.S. universities tested tunes incorporating feline-centric sounds that included purring and a pulse reminiscent of suckling.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024

Run by JM Nixon and Son, the farm had 140 suckling beef cattle as well as several holiday cottages and a riding school.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023

The simplest way to do that is to allow the kid or calf to start suckling, but drive it away once the milk starts flowing.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari