Rodent And Snake ... Friends?

A very weird thing happened at the Tokyo Zoo:

TOKYO (AP) - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a nine centimetre dwarf hamster, the other is a 1.2-metre 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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Obviously they were both very lonely and in need of a friend. o.O One day they'll turn. The snake will try to impress some girl snake and that'll be the end of mr. hairball.

Now that's a cool story. Maybe the rat and snake are plotting to take over the zoo and this is just their first step? The friendly relationship could be a distraction: by confusing the zookeepers, the rat is free to sneak out and then release the snake.But if that happened, I bet the snake would turn and eat the rat. Can't leave witnesses who know so much, of course.

haha no no sarah its brain from pinky and the brain and i think pinky became so stupid that he got trapped in a freezer and was the frozen mouse the snake would not eat, soo brain decided to use the snake as his minion an they are plotting to take over the world....i hope steven spielberg reads this and makes a movie using both of them so i can get paid millions for intellectual property...Narf !!

Yeah it aloso got me, quite confused, but now i understand, thanks.

Haha that's awesome. It always blows my mind when two species that are meant to be natural enemies come together... mostly because humans often times can't get along with other humans due to very insignificant *BLEEP* yet these animals can overcome their entire instinctual set just to get along. Great story though