Hamster and snake best friends at Tokyo zoo
Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 9 centimetre dwarf hamster; the other is a 120 centimetre ratsnake.
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.
