The $4 million dollar supercow is in the Guinness Book of Records
There are hundreds of millions of cows in Brazil, but one of them is special. The $4 million Viatina-19 FIV Mara Moveis cow is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. At 1,100 kilograms, he is twice as heavy as the average adult of his tribe, reports CBS.
Viatina-19’s owners have installed two billboards along a highway through central Brazil, celebrating the cow’s size and urging people to make a pilgrimage to see the amazing animal.
Livestock is the main source of economic development in Brazil, and the government wants to conquer new export markets.
Viatina-19 is the epitome of Brazil’s breeding ambitions, the result of years of effort. The winners are auctioned off at high prices, so high that wealthy owners use the animals’ eggs and sperm to create embryos and transplant them into surrogate cows in the hope that they will produce the next great specimen.
