Woman's 'deer club', a tale of salt, sociability
By Da Qiong and Palden Nyima in Lhasa | 皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2016-05-23 08:29
After adopting 3 fawns in the 1970s, local woman's links with animals continue
Tibetan culture is filled with folk tales about special relationships between humans and animals, and the connection continues today in the form of a 62-year-old woman's "deer club" in the Tibet autonomous region's Qamdo city.
Changchub Lhamo lives on a Riwoche county pasture called the Nadenthang that is home to Tibetan red deer, an endangered species in 皇冠体育app. Known as sha in the Tibetan language, red deer are native to the southern Tibetan highlands.
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