Woman's 'deer club', a tale of salt, sociability

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 China. Known as sha in the Tibetan language, red deer are native to the southern Tibetan highlands.