Died in Moscow

alligator Mississippi Saturn, brought to the Moscow zoo from post-war Berlin, has died of old age. The legend says that Saturn was in the personal collection of Hitler.

He was about 84 years old, according to a Fb zoo.

Saturn was born in the US in approximately 1936, Then he was brought to the Berlin zoo, where the alligator had escaped after the bombing in 1943. On the next three years of the life of Saturn is unknown. In 1946 he found British soldiers and handed over to the Soviet Union. Then was born the story of Hitler’s pearl collection.

the zoo Staff cared for the elderly reptile with great care. The alligator loved the massage brush, was fastidious and capricious: if something is not liked, could crack the concrete sets and steel mitts for the feed.