Post by KotO on May 25, 2020 18:40:08 GMT
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Saturn, an alligator of international intrigue, has died at the Moscow Zoo on Friday at the age of 84.
That in itself made Saturn unusual. In the wild, the normal life span for an alligator is 30 to 50 years.
But longevity was the least unusual aspect of Saturn's biography.
Saturn was born in the wild somewhere in Mississippi in 1936 and was shipped to the Berlin Zoo from which he disappeared on November 23, 1943, in the aftermath of an Allied air bombing campaign on Berlin. One bomb directly struck the zoo's aquarium and, according to reports at the time, all of the alligators and crocodiles in captivity there were killed.
In fact, of the 16.000 animals once kept in the Berlin Zoo, it is estimated that fewer than 100 survived the war. Saturn was one of them.
Story continues....
Saturn, an alligator of international intrigue, has died at the Moscow Zoo on Friday at the age of 84.
That in itself made Saturn unusual. In the wild, the normal life span for an alligator is 30 to 50 years.
But longevity was the least unusual aspect of Saturn's biography.
Saturn was born in the wild somewhere in Mississippi in 1936 and was shipped to the Berlin Zoo from which he disappeared on November 23, 1943, in the aftermath of an Allied air bombing campaign on Berlin. One bomb directly struck the zoo's aquarium and, according to reports at the time, all of the alligators and crocodiles in captivity there were killed.
In fact, of the 16.000 animals once kept in the Berlin Zoo, it is estimated that fewer than 100 survived the war. Saturn was one of them.
Story continues....