World's Smallest Cow is a mere 33 inches tall
World's Smallest Cow: Swallow, a tiny cow bred in Britain with a taste for contemporary music has been named smallest by Guinness World Records.
This is an undated Guinness World Records photo made available on Sept. 16, of Swallow (r.) an 11-year-old cow from Yorkshire posing next to Freddie the bull. The minuscule cow has been named the world's smallest by the Guinness World Records book.
Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records/AP
LONDON
A minuscule cow with a taste for contemporary music has been named the world's smallest by the Guinness World Records book.
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Guinness says the sheep-sized bovine from the West Yorkshire region of northern England measures roughly 33 inches (84 centimeters) from hind to foot.
The 11-year-old cow is named Swallow and her owner, Caroline Ryder, said she would spend Thursday either grazing with her herd or listening to BBC radio in her cowshed.
Swallow is a Dexter cow, an Irish breed known for its diminutive stature, but is small even by Dexter standards.
She already has nine regular-sized calves and is pregnant with her 10th. Guinness said her youngest calf has already grown larger than she is.
Guinness World Records 2011 was published Thursday in the U.K.
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