In modern times, Saturn spent much of his time sleeping. He ate a diet of fish, rabbits, and rats twice a week.[1][2] Vladimir Kudryavtsev, the head of the Moscow Zoo's reptile department, says that not many visitors today know of Saturn's eventful history.[3] Today, zoo staff only relate Saturn's German origins to groups of visiting schoolchildren.[3] When school classes came, the zookeepers allowed children to stick the end of a broomstick into the enclosure, which was safe because Saturn was known as generally peaceful.[3] His only violent incident occurred in 1970, when he tried to bite an inexperienced warden who had tried to feed him by hand.[3]