A snake was given a live hamster as a meal. You won't believe what happened after.
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! The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction”.
But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident”. Who said that you couldn’t befriend your food as your best pal?
Let’s just hope Aochan never betrays Gohan!