This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jiuzhaigou means "valley of nine villages," because it once harbored nine, but other numbers are more significant now.
A Chinese mountain cat captured by an infrared camera in Jiuzhaigou, Southwest China's Sichuan province. [Photo/Chinanews.com] The Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti), a national first-class ...