Saturn, RIP
May 24, 2020 6:47 AM   Subscribe

 
Physical description

Saturn was described as having been 2[2] to 3.5[3] meters long
That’s quite a range.

“How tall was the guy you were talking to?”

“You know, between three and seven feet, I guess.”
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:52 AM on May 24, 2020 [4 favorites]


This is an oddly moving and somewhat disturbing chronical of a creature's life.

RIP, Saturn.
posted by mule98J at 7:33 AM on May 24, 2020 [2 favorites]


That’s quite a range.

I'm just imagining two Russian zookeepers debating with each other who is going to measure the grumpy 80 year old gator, then both deciding it's way above their pay grade and calling it a day.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 7:55 AM on May 24, 2020 [11 favorites]


The aquarium was destroyed in November 1943 and he wasn't formally recaptured until 1946? I wonder if someone brought him home to their bathtub the whole time; there's no way he could have been out and about through *three German winters at the end of WWII*, right???

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posted by Earthtopus at 9:25 AM on May 24, 2020 [2 favorites]


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posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs at 10:07 AM on May 24, 2020


Churchill's parrot outlives Hitler's alligator! The Allies win again!*


*both claims to pet ownership are extremely shady.
posted by head full of air at 10:51 AM on May 24, 2020




What an amazing story! Who’s going to direct the movie version of Saturn’s adventures? Gotta be Jon Favreau, right? Photorealistic CGI animals are his niche now.
posted by ejs at 12:27 PM on May 24, 2020


The image of an alligator scuttling through the shadows of the shattered streets of wartime Berlin could be straight out of the last part of Gravity's Rainbow.
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 4:10 PM on May 24, 2020 [4 favorites]


RIP, friend. I love alligators, this is a sad bit of news at this time.
posted by FirstMateKate at 8:56 AM on May 26, 2020


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