WE CAN ALL JUST GET ALONG, PART 2
TOKYO (AP) - 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.
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That's a long time for a snake to wait to get hungry.
Apparently it has since taken to eating frozen mice, so I don't think it's a question of the snake starving itself.
I think it's a real bond. Perhaps the snake likes having the warm blooded hamster around to keep him warm.
Hamsters seem logical as snake food to me; after all, there's not a huge difference between a mouse, a rat, a hamster, and a gerbil.
They're all delicious!
I like Ken's use of the 'P' in Hampster, kinda like Clempson.
This story reminds me of two guys I know who share a cage in brooklyn....
Someday one of those guys will get hungry enough, dislocate his jaw, and slowly swallow the other one whole.
So now it's a 'black' thing!
It'll end when the hamster starts to complain that the snake never takes it anywhere and just wants to come home and play guitar or watch tv.
No pleasing some...uh...people.
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