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.But instead ...

TOKYO – 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 ...

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LONDON (BBC News) -- A rodent-eating snake and a hamster have developed an unusual bond at a zoo in the Japanese capital. Their relationship began in October last year, when zookeepers presented the 3 ...

For one snake in a Tokyo zoo, dinner became an unexpected roommate. Zookeepers at Tokyo’s Mutsugoro Okoku zoo were stunned to find that a dwarf hamster they had offered as a tasty meal to their 4-foot ...

Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 9 centimetre dwarf hamster; the other is a 120 centimetre ratsnake. Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one’s a 9 centimetre dwarf hamster; the ...