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Lishadi Market Vendor
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This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine

Pu Dengyi offers a modest assortment of birds, squirrels, and other rodents caught near his mountain-village home at the weekly Lishadi market in China's Nu River Valley.


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