Comments on: Hamtaro vs 110 meter long Snakezilla! http://news.3yen.com/2006-01-19/the-odd-couple-and-the-odder-story/ News.3Yen.com - Japanese News Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:10:19 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Marked Trail http://news.3yen.com/2006-01-19/the-odd-couple-and-the-odder-story/comment-page-1/#comment-102059 Marked Trail Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:37:47 +0000 http://news.3yen.com/2006-01-19/the-odd-couple-and-the-odder-story/#comment-102059 Ok, here's the real story...the snake is only a one yard long (a little less than one meter). <blockquote><strong>Hamster, snake best friends at Tokyo zoo </strong>- Peculiar Postings <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10903211/">MSNBC.com: 6:53 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2006 TOKYO --- </a>Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is <strong>a yard-long rat snake.</strong> 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<a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10903211/" target="_blank"><em>...more...</em></a></blockquote> 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…

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