On a single day in January 1982, a Cuban cow named Ubre Blanca ("White Udder") produced 109.5 liters of milk — "more than four times a typical cow's production," according to Wikipedia. Guinness World Records recognized that mark, along with her 24,268.9-liter output in a single lactation period. Neither record "was beaten by another cow until after Ubre Blanca's death." She was a crossbreed between a Holstein and a zebu.
Fidel Castro cited her output in speeches "as evidence of communism's superior breeding skills," and her feats ran in Cuban newspapers. When she was euthanized in 1985, around age 13 and a half, the Communist Party newspaper Granma commemorated her "with a full obituary and eulogy."
Taxidermists stuffed the cow and put the body "in a climate-controlled glass case at the entrance to the National Cattle Health Center, a 45-minute drive from old Havana, where it still remains." Her hometown of Nueva Gerona erected a marble statue. "Since the cow's death, Cuban scientists have unsuccessfully attempted to clone Ubre Blanca using frozen tissue samples."
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