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Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 3665
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 10:46 am: | 
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All Together Now -"AAAAAAHHHHH How Cute!"
TOKYO (Jan. 19) - 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.
Hamster Gohan was supposed to be a meal for snake Aochan in October, but Aochan has decided thus far not to eat the critter.
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."
-- Keeper Kazuya Yamamoto
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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Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5150
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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this is an Aesop's Fable in the making. |
Brett Weir
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Username: Brett_weir
Post Number: 1202
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 11:30 am: |
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"The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep"'
-Woody Allen, Without Feathers |
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