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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.

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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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