LIONS AND LAMBS

Rat Snake and Hamster Forge a Friendship

A hamster and a snake have developed an unusual bond at a Tokyo zoo.  This is no ordinary snake, it's a rat snake which normally eats any rodent that crosses its path.
It all started when the zoo keeper gave the rat snake the hamster, although hungry it refused to eat the hamster. The pair now share a box. " I have never seen anything like it," a keeper at Mutsugoro Okoku Zoo, in Tokyo, said.

The hamster was offered to Aochan, a rat snake, because it refused to eat frozen mice.  Clearly, the Japanese have a sense of humour as thy named the hamster Gohan, which means meal in Japanese.