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Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo
TOKYO Jan 18, 2006 — 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.

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Of course it could be a diabolical trap, where the snake will one day turn against the hamster, when he least suspects it.

The Sword of Demacles...

My dad claims that his fraternity held a death match with a woodchuck (or something like that) and a python as a fundraiser. He said that they chose a woodchuck (or whatever rodent it was) because they thought it would have a little more fight in it than a hampster. That aspect didn't work out and after 30 minutes of waiting, the rodent was toast.

I have never believed any of this, by the way.

I have never believed any of this, by the way.

Your dad did some sick shit in the name of Beta Theta Pi.

- Mere "the funny thing is that neither of his kids are impressed by frat boy pranks" 1975

It can't possibly be too soon to make a joke about A&M here, right?

It can't possibly be too soon to make a joke about A&M here, right?

uhh. there is no such thing as too soon and jokes about Aggies.