Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Forget the lion and lamb, this is even better


Associated Press
Wed Jan 18, 3:58 PM ET

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.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

creepy. I wonder how long the 'friendship' will last?

Tyson said...

apparently, it's lasted since october. i used to have hamsters as pets and have fond memories of them, so that's why this story caught my eye.

Anonymous said...

I love rodents. I grew up with all sorts of animals (bless my parents for tolerating that).