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TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a yard-long rat snake.

Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name is a tasty rice dish in Japanese — to Aochan as a snack 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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---Al

but I would not bet on that romance lasting.

It makes me wonder what happens to other hampsters introduced to the snake.

Good question about the other hampsters. Maybe überhampster just does what passes for a hampster laugh and sits back and enjoys the show. Even at this, if they let the snake get hungry, all of a sudden Hampy won't be so much of a friend anymore.