Gwen Moore

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

American Politician

Gutzon Borglum

I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled on Italian art: my slates were covered from end to end with portraits of Savonarola, Fra Angelico, and Wild Bill and Sitting Bull; I knew all equally well and admired them about alike.

American Sculptor

Karen Horney

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

American Psychologist

Terry Teachout

I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.

American Critic

Maria Montessori

The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.

Italian Educator

Rachel Khoo

I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous.

British Chef

Jamie Hyneman

Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.

American Entertainer

Georgie Fame

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

British Musician

Use 'suckle' when talking about animals feeding their babies.

Animal Context

'Suckle' can be used metaphorically to indicate drawing sustenance or support.

Extended Use

Suckling can imply a bond between mother and child beyond just feeding.

Emotional Bond

Use 'suckle' especially when referring to a human baby feeding on breast milk.

Human Context

'Suckle' refers to the act of drawing milk by creating a vacuum with the mouth.

Physiological Act

Suckling is more specific than eating; it involves milk and a suckling motion.

Not Just Eating

 In fact, it's an extremely important aspect of elephant life. It builds lifelong bonds and helps the herd to thrive. Mothers have even been found to adopt orphaned babies, letting them suckle and protecting them after their mothers have died. Some herds have adopted outsiders too, like a human family might do.

Elephants Being...

 that success is their cooperation when they work together no other hunters can match them and this cooperation extends into other parts of their lives as well the lionesses nurture their cubs as a team taking turns to guard them and even on occasion suckling one another's influence

Lion Pride vs Buffalo PIPE...

 of suckling and sleeping with the mother, and then another three, four or five years of emotional dependence on her, even when the next child is born. The importance of learning in that time, when behavior is flexible -- and there's an awful lot to learn in chimpanzee society.

What separates us from...

 Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for. A female kangaroo can often simultaneously support one inside her uterus and another in her pouch. In unfavorable conditions,

The three different ways...

 whatever and so I was like we have string cheese he's a little survivor like took my thumb and gave him water and he suckled the water of my thumb and then nibbled on the string cheese I'm a bear for me one of the important things to have on these trips morale is beer

Explorers Save Abandoned...

 the surface to breathe and then going under its mom for a period suckle the animals are basically stationary so we don't think that this is sort of a position that would help locomotion once lactation is done that what's estimated to be about five or seven months the

Baby Blue Whale Nursing...

 Now, why is this important, apart from being simply very interesting? It's because women vary in the number of areolar glands that they have, and there is a correlation between the ease with which babies start to suckle and the number of areolar glands she has.

The smelly mystery of...

 bonds and helps the herd to thrive the mothers have even been found to adopt orphan babies letting them suckle and protecting them after their mothers have died and some herds have adopted

Elephants' Incredible...

 So with there being so many pups and mothers on the beach, one behaviour in particular that we're seeing a lot of is suckling. And this is a really important stage in a young seal's life.

Finding Baby Seals on an...

 but kittens live by different social rules even when they suckle they nametag teats with their own individual scent and return to it each time this simple rule maintains peace