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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:03 pm 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4627950.stm

Snake 'befriends' snack hamster

A rodent-eating snake and a hamster have developed an unusual bond at a zoo in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.
Their relationship began in October last year, when zookeepers presented the hamster to the snake as a meal.

The rat snake, however, refused to eat the rodent. The two now share a cage, and the hamster sometimes falls asleep sitting on top of his natural foe.

"I have never seen anything like it," a zookeeper at the Mutsugoro Okoku zoo told the Associated Press News agency.

The hamster was initially offered to Aochan, the two-year-old rat snake, because it was refusing to eat frozen mice, the Associated Press news agency reports.

As a joke, the zookeeper said they named the hamster Gohan - the Japanese word for meal.

"I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much," zookeeper Kazuya Yamamoto told the Associated Press news agency.

The apparent friendship between the snake and hamster is one of many reported bonds spanning the divide between predator and prey.

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i found this story to be highly amusing. i never knew snakes even had friends. i am not familiar with their sociology at all. what do you think the hamster thinks when other hamsters are thrown in as food, though?


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snake is just smart - waiting for the hamster to get real fat and then he will eat him.

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Nature at it's best. Definitely a nice story. Thanks Z.


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rparis74 Wrote:
snake is just smart - waiting for the hamster to get real fat and then he will eat him.

this is what i thought too. if you look at the picture on the site, that hamster's really beefing up and that snake is just playing it cool.


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I had a pet snake for a few years when I was a teenager. He ate live mice. If I handled a mouse too much prior to putting it in his cage he wouldn't eat it. And if he didn't go after it within the first several minutes he never would.

I could have left them in their for days and he would have just ignored them. Of course, I didn't do that. If they survived the initial attempt, I gave them a reprieve and let them free in the woods near my house.


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This article made my day. :D


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To everyone whose heart was warmed by this story, it's going to end badly.

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I think the hamster must have some extortion dirt on the snake. He's keeping the thing in check with something.

"You eat me, the whole zoo finds out. Kapich?"


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That's cute. :D


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