It synthesizes and stores milk until it is time for the milk to come out either by stimulation from the milking machine or by hand or by the scent and suckling action of the cow's calf.
Because they are mammals. Female mammals, after giving birth to young, give milk for a period of time before the young are weaned. The name of these mammary-housing appendages differ for each species...
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