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From the BBC website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4627950.stm

<font color=yellow>A rodent-eating snake and a hamster have developed an unusual bond at a zoo in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Their relationship began in October last year, when zookeepers presented the hamster to the snake as a meal.

The rat snake, however, refused to eat the rodent. The two now share a cage.

"I have never seen anything like it," a zookeeper at the Mutsugoro Okoku zoo said, adding that the hamster was known to fall asleep sitting atop the snake.


The hamster was initially offered to Aochan, the two-year-old rat snake, because it was refusing to eat frozen mice, the Associated Press reports.

As a joke, the zookeeper said they named the hamster Gohan - the Japanese word for meal.

"I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much," zookeeper Kazuya Yamamoto told the Associated Press news agency.

The apparent friendship between the snake and hamster is one of many reported bonds spanning the divide between predator and prey. </font id=yellow>

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

Until, one day, Gohan gets just a little too bitchy about all the mouse pellets littering the cage and...

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Edited by - 30mike-mike on Jan 19 2006 07:46 AM

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This the same as lambs and lions?

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Snipers...and targets.</b>
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Their is a reason behind letting your prey fatten up..




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-Genghis Khan

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snake is a dumbass. But this is a typical social welfare problem, as long as your next meal is guarenteed you can choose what to eat.

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson