1/19/2006

Hamtaro vs 110 meter long Snakezilla!

An Odd Pairing At Tokyo Zoo
All Headline News, January 18, 2006 12:56 p.m. EST
Tokyo, Japan (AHN)— This is certainly an odd couple: a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster and a 120 yard-long rat snake share the same cage at Tokyo’s Mutsugoro Okoku Zoo.
The pair were introduced when the hamster Gohan, (Japanese for ‘meal’), was put in Aochan the snake’s cage as dinner. Instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the rodent. The two have shared a cage ever since. The two …more…

Hamtaro (ãƒãƒ å¤ªéƒŽ) VS Snakezilla!
Gee, 120-yard long rat snake! That’s 109 meters of Hamtaro eating fun!
(Best guess is that, Hector Duarte Jr. – All Headline News staff reporter, dropped a decimal point covering a 1.09 meters into yards, hee, hee.)

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One Response to “Hamtaro vs 110 meter long Snakezilla!”

Marked Trail Says:
January 20th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Ok, here’s the real story…the snake is only a one yard long (a little less than one meter).

Hamster, snake best friends at Tokyo zoo - Peculiar Postings
MSNBC.com: 6:53 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2006
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…more…