MOSCOW: Hitler’s pet alligator Saturn, who survived the WWII, died at the age of 84 in the Zoo here on Friday 22nd of May, 2020!
Moscow zoo took to the Twitter to state: “Вчера утром наш миссисипский аллигатор Сатурн умер от старости. Ему было около 84 лет – крайне почтенный возраст. Московскому зоопарку выпала честь содержать Сатурна 74 года. Он видел многих из нас детьми. Надеемся, что мы его не разочаровали.”
“Yesterday morning, our Mississippi alligator Saturn died of old age. He was about 84 years old – an extremely respectable age. Moscow Zoo had the honor of keeping Saturn 74 years. He saw many of us as children. We hope that we did not disappoint him.”
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According to details Saturn was born in USA and was later sent to Berlin Zoo. During the 1943 bombings he bolted from the captivity. After the war in 1946 British soldiers spotted Saturn and handed him over to the Zoo here. However, the myth is that he was never incarcerated in the Berlin Zoo and was cozily living a good life as dictator’s pet!
From 1946 till 2020 Saturn had been a favorite of Zoo visitors. He knew his keepers, loved being massaged with a brush and was able to crack steel feeding tongs and bits of concrete with his teeth if irritated: “For us Saturn was an entire era, and that’s without the slightest exaggeration,” recall the Zoo personnel.
Since Mississippi alligators live upto 30-50 years in the wild, Saturn was one of the world’s oldest alligators. Another alligator in Serbia’s Belgrade Zoo is also more than 80 years old. Nevertheless, with the Hitler’s Pet myth Saturn had a class/reputation that no other alligator can beat: 80 plus or not! Moscow Zoo maintains: “Animals do not belong to politics and mustn’t be held responsible for human sins”.
Saturn will now be stuffed and exhibited in Moscow’s popular Charles Darwin Museum of Biology.
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