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84-year-old alligator rumored to have been Hitler's dies in Moscow

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As an aside, Dawn is an interesting organization. It's one of the oldest and largest circulation English language newspapers in Pakistan. If you ever have reason to visit Pakistan, I recommend picking up a paper copy of it and reading through it. It provides a fascinating perspective on what's going on economically and politically that you might not find on the Internet.

In terms of its role as an old and well respected newspaper in Pakistan, it's sort of like the New York Times or Washington Post.

> he escaped when the zoo was bombed in 1943. His whereabouts were unknown until 1946, when British soldiers found him

Extraordinary that an alligator could survive for over two years in wartime Berlin. Where did it live, what did it eat?

There are several rivers, small lakes and many nature in and around the Berlin Zoo. Probably wasn't that hard to find a living ground at the time.

Are alligators known to become that old?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator Undefined

When it comes to crocs, some of them do seem to live a long time. https://youtu.be/hSsEoi1f9Qw?t=156

Seems like a croc to me.

Most of them die as hatchlings, but if they reach adulthood, they tend to live 35-50 years in the wild.

The oldest living alligator in captivity has been in a zoo for 84 years, but was an adult when they got him so he's at least 3 or 4 years older than that.

See you later.....alligator

hitlergator... half squamate, half furrier.

There is a film here waiting to be created. Velocipastor has set the bar too high in any case.

Thank you for "VelociPastor", 5.2 on IMDb, got to be worth a punt ...

So based on the alligator entry in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator, alligators are native only to US in China. Given the geographic distance, how is it possible that: a. they are the same species, or b. somehow they migrated through the Bering Sea.

There are only six sentences in the article, of which two are:

"Saturn was born in the United States and later sent to the Berlin Zoo, from which he escaped when the zoo was bombed in 1943. His whereabouts were unknown until 1946, when British soldiers found him and gave him to the Soviet Union".

RIP Saturn.

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