Steer With Biggest Horns Dies

A Watusi steer that held the world record for largest horns has died of cancer at age 14 on an Arkansas refuge. Lurch, who died Saturday afternoon at Rocky Ridge Refuge near Gassville, entered the Guinness World Records in 2003 when his horns were measured at 36 inches in circumference. Despite his weakened state, Lurch stood up Saturday morning, walked out of the barn and ambled down a hill to lay down in the sun along a fence with “his buddies,” said refuge owner Janice Wolf. He went down later when he tried to make it back up the hill and died a short time later, she said. Lurch will be immortalized in a full-body taxidermy created by taxidermist-artist Tim Dobbs of Midland, Texas. It hasn’t been determined where the famous steer’s final resting place will be.