While I posted about the hamster that got posted in the mail yesterday, I thought I would stick with the theme!



Can you believe this??? What a great story!


A hamster named Gohan and a snake called Aochan live together in a cardboard box at the Mutsugoro Okoku zoo on the outskirts of Tokyo.
(AP)

Copyright 2006 Associated Press


TOKYO -- Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster -- whose name means "meal" in Japanese -- to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.

Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan -- despite her name.

"We named her Gohan as a joke," Yamamoto chuckled. "But I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much."

The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction," according to Yamamoto.

But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident," Yamamoto said.




READ IT HERE!!!

He'll gobble it up one day

ThreadCula said:

:crry: no he wont!

BucketOfBouncyBalls said:

awww bucket, they remind me of us

I read this story. It really concerned me that they put a live hamster in the snake's pen as I know this is illegal in Britain, but it's a really cute story.

I hope the snake doesn't eat him

Anxiety said:

In this instance she'd be the hamster?

superspaceboy said:

such a commodian.

Anxiety said:

Commodian? Is that like a custodial engineer?

i saw the story in the paper today. the picture did not do it justice lke this one does. that rodent is CCCUUUUUTTTEEEE!!!!!

Tom said:

Milty said:

It is cuuuutteeeee. I cant get over the story and they are friends

I wonder what they think of each other?

Maybe the hamster thinks he is a snake and the snake thinks he is a hamster, or maybe the snake does have ulterior motives, and is playing a long nasty game, giving the hammy a false sence of security..

I wonder what the hammy thinks, when snake is fed frozen hammy relatives?

Tom said:

BELTER....

Jeeeeez.
That had me rolling over, serious.

HamsterHuey said:

me too hahahah!!

Reincarnate said:

say what? it's illegal to feed snakes live rodents in britain? seems odd to me...I don't think that's illegal here in the US? anyone know?

Anxiety said:

LOL WTF

Anxiety said:

!! LOL U SPELT COMMEDIAN WRONG LOL!!!
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