Wednesday, February 15, 2006
And they thought he would be dinner
What does a snake call a hamster? Buddy!
Zookeepers at Tokyo’s Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name is a tasty rice dish in Japanese — to Aochan as a snack 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.
Click here for a video of the two friends.(it takes a minute to load)
You just never know.
I wonder if the friendship will last.
When the snake keeper at the Tokyo Kingdom Zoo put a hamster in a rat snake’s cage, he didn’t expect the two animals to be become friends. But the odd couple are roommates, living together in a heated glass box.
TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a yard-long rat snake.
