People take photos of Rani.

Gulf Today Report

Thousands of Bangladeshis defied the lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus to see a cow called “Rani” whose breeders claim that it is the smallest of its kind in the world.

'Rani' is 51 centimetres tall, 66 centimetres long and weighs only 26 kilogrammes.

According to breeders, it is 10 centimetres shorter than the smallest cow in the Guinness Book of Records.

The 23-month-old pygmy cow became a media star after it was highlighted by dozens of newspapers and TV channels on a farm near Dhaka.

With transportation suspended across the country due to Bangladesh's record number of coronavirus infections and deaths, people hired rickshaws to the farm in Charigram, 30 kilometres southwest of Dhaka.

Rani is less than the half of the height of a goat.

“I have never seen anything like this in my life,” said Rina Begum, 30, who came from a nearby town.

He said, "More than 15,000 people visited the village in the past three days to see “Rani.”