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['slideshow/images/0_MastiffPuppy.jpg', 'Tibetan Mastiff Puppy', 'Nuozha, a chubby male puppy, is only 8 weeks old. He has tripled in size since the last time I saw him three weeks ago. His poor eyesight - common in young mastiff pups - makes him clumsy. Many young mastiffs suffer from ingrown eyelashes that require surgery.', '1', '12'],
['slideshow/images/1_Tibetan_Mastiffbaby_mom.jpg', '3-Month-Old Mastiff Puppy', 'This head of a Tibetan village shows off his promising 3-month-old male puppy. He told me that China\'s Red Guard soldiers killed many vicious mastiffs during the Cultural Revolution because they felt they were a danger to society. He said he saw one three-foot-tall mastiff still alive and fighting after being hit by three bullets. The guards had to stone the dog to death after the bullets ran out.', '2', '0'],
['slideshow/images/2_Mastiff-Teeth.jpg', 'Renruo', 'Renruo, the unruly mastiff, bit his trainer Bainiu several times before breaking loose, forcing Xiaoli and me to run for our lives. The bite marks on Bainiu\'s arms and hands looked terrible, but the Tibetan brushed it off.', '3', '1'],
['slideshow/images/3_Rinpoche_Brent_Xiaoli.jpg', 'The Rinpoche with Xiaoli and Brent', 'At first I was very intimidated by the Rinpoche \(also known as Zum Kang Tashe\), a direct descendant of the seventh Dalai Lama. But when Xiaoli and I finally talked with him at length, we found him incredibly humble, with a wicked sense of humor. He also whipped out his pocket-sized digital camera to take a picture of us for his Web site.', '4', '2'],
['slideshow/images/4_Male.jpg', 'Male Golden Monkey', 'This imposing male, possibly the fabled \"Monkey King,\" is angry because I am getting too close to the females behind him. He looked so harmless and humorous until he bared his massive teeth and emitted a loud warning, which sounded like \"boo-kaak.\"', '5', '3'],
['slideshow/images/5_female_looks_at_me.jpg', 'Female Golden Monkey', 'The snub-nosed golden monkeys are extremely intelligent and curious. This young female came within 15 feet of me to get a closer look at this strange furry human filming her.', '6', '4'],
['slideshow/images/6_Wa-dance-at-entrance.jpg', 'Wa Ceremony', 'Wa ceremonies like this one are held for important visitors. The festivities take place at the entrance gate to the village. Men and women dance in traditional dress and sing and beat drums made from hollowed-out logs.', '7', '5'],
['slideshow/images/7_Skull-at-Wa-Village.jpg', 'Water Buffalo Skull at Wa Village', 'This water buffalo skull adorns the Wa throne room, empty during the day but bustling with tribal activity at night.', '8', '6'],
['slideshow/images/8_Wa-women-force-feed.jpg', 'Wa Drinking Game', 'In this Wa drinking game, the most beautiful girls in the village sit on the laps of men and make them drink bowl-sized shots of vodka-strength rice alcohol. Cao Zhongyue, a former soldier and our driver during the entire assignment, looks like he\'s having a good time.', '9', '7'],
['slideshow/images/9_Lisu-Field.jpg', 'Lisu Field', 'Women do most of the work in the village, including tending crops. They are out in the fields from sunrise to sunset.', '10', '8'],
['slideshow/images/10_Lisu-Chief.jpg', 'Chief Yu Xuelang', 'Chief Yu Xuelang, head of the Lisu hill tribe, tells me what it means to be Lisu. \"We don\'t fight. We don\'t create problems after drinking alcohol. We listen to our parents and our eldest siblings. So we live in harmony. We believe in love too.\"', '11', '9'],
['slideshow/images/11_Lisu-cabin.jpg', 'Lisu Cabin', 'We lived in this traditional Lisu cabin for four weeks. The cabins are built without nails and with the smallest of doors to keep ghosts out. The Lisu say that ghosts are unable to bend their bodies to get inside. When not a place for visitors, the cabin is used to store grain.', '12', '10'],
['slideshow/images/12_Grandmother-smokes-pipe.jpg', 'Zhang Chu', 'At 78, Zhang Chu is the Lisu tribe\'s oldest member and the chief\'s mother. At every meal, she smokes a pipe and drinks a bottle of rice alcohol. She\'s done this ever since she was a young girl. \"My bones would ache so badly because of a lack of food,\" she told us. \"Smoking and drinking makes me feel better.\"', '0', '11']
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