88 Animals So Giant It’s Hard To Believe They Are Real (New Pics)
“If a Holstein does reach adulthood, like 7-year-old Knickers, then they’re simply too large to fit through the butchering equipment,” reported the Dodo. “That’sthe reasonKnickers has been spared by his owner, Geoff Pearson, a cattle farmer from Australia.”
Dr. M. Todd See, the head of the Department of Animal Science at North Carolina State University, shared this sentiment.
“The Holstein Fresian is one of the larger cattle breeds and is the largest dairy breed of cattle in size,” he told TIME, adding that the cattle Knickers was pictured with were beef breed or breed crosses that are more moderate in size.
“So from a genetic perspective, I would expect him to be larger and taller,” explained the expert. “A simple but perhaps more extreme analogy would be a Great Dane dog as compared to a Yorkshire Terrier.”
