Saturn (Russian: Сату́рн, IPA: [sɐˈturn]; 1936 – 22 May 2020) was an American alligator residing in the Moscow Zoo.

After hatching in Mississippi, Saturn was brought to Nazi Germany, residing at the Berlin Zoological Garden.

During World War II, the Berlin Zoo was destroyed, but Saturn was discovered by British soldiers three years later.

[4][5] Press reports documented that the streets near the aquarium were littered with alligator and crocodile corpses, but that some, including Saturn, had survived and were wandering through the city in search of food.

[3] When Russian tanks were moving down the Garden Ring during the 1993 constitutional crisis, Saturn cried out because of the vibrations, which a zookeeper thought reminded him of the Battle of Berlin.

In the 1980s, a slab of concrete fell from the aquarium's ceiling into the alligator enclosure, but he was in a protective niche at the time.

[4] In 1990, a new aquarium building was built, but Saturn resisted the move, refusing to eat for four months and coming close to death.

[4][9] Vladimir Kudryavtsev, the head of the Moscow Zoo's reptile department, said that not many visitors knew of Saturn's eventful history.

[4] Zoo staff only related Saturn's German origins to groups of visiting schoolchildren.

[4] When school groups came, the zookeepers allowed children to stick the end of a broomstick into the enclosure, which was safe because Saturn was generally peaceful.