The world’s expectations for a hero have perhaps never been lower.
Which brings us to the steer. It’s like a normal steer, but bigger.
It’s a very big steer.
The very big steer is, according to the nearly unanimous acclaim on social media, a hero. At 6 feet 4 inches tall and more than 1.4 tons (2,800 pounds), it is roughly the height of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson but weighs about 11 times as much.
Its enormous size — just three inches short of the Guinness World Record for tallest living steer — saved it from certain death, its owner said. No one bought it for slaughter at an auction last month because potential buyers said it wouldn’t fit in their farm equipment.
“He was always a standout steer,” said Geoff Pearson, who owns thousands of cattle in Myalup, a small town south of Perth in Western Australia.
The steer’s name is Knickers. He’s a Holstein-Friesian, a dairy breed.
[Read more about what makes Knickers so big.]
He is not, as many on the internet have wrongly assumed, a big cow. A cow is a female that has had at least one calf, while a steer is a male that has been neutered.
Mr. Pearson said he doesn’t usually get attached to his cattle. But Knickers is different.
Knickers drew worldwide adoration after local news reports ignited coverage of him internationally, and his image saturated social media on Tuesday.
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