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There's Always Hope...
Sometimes on my darkest, dimmest days, I wonder if there's any hope for us humans to link arms and sing Why Can't We Be Friends.
Then I see something like this:
And my blackened, shrivelled heart grows to three times its size. Awwwwwww.
Here's the story:
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.
Then I see something like this:
Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo
And my blackened, shrivelled heart grows to three times its size. Awwwwwww.
Here's the story:
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.
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Reminds me of the Loony Tunes with the chicken hawk who was friends with a chicken.
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Meanwhile the snake has probably been nibbled to death by the hamster...
In the same line...
Re: In the same line...
The hippo and the tortoise should be friends,
Oh, the hippo and the tortoise should be friends.
One of them likes to roll in mud, the other likes to, well, not do much at all,
But that's no reason why they cain't be friends.
Territory folks should stick together,
Territory folks should all be pals.
Hippos dance with tortoise's daughters,
Tortoises dance with the hippos' gals.
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a) the hamster is too big for the snake to eat
b) once the snake is big enough to eat the hamster, it will.
*cackles evilly*
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