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Malagasy girl catches minnows with crudely fashioned fish net.

Chameleon feeds on grasshopper by striking with it's songue.

Antandroy man with egg of extinct elephant bird.

Outside his Fresno apartment, Chao Yang playfully tossed one of his three children in the air. Most Hmong in Fresno are unemployed and many live in sprawling, dingy apartment complexes.

Ying Soo Kue cuts his family's lawn in Morganton, N.C. Many Carolina Hmong own their own homes and are positively middle-class.

Kue Chaw gets a fly fishing lesson from the Reverend Allen McKenney, who spearheaded the move to bring Hmong refugees to North Carolina.

While older Hmong cling to their past, their children practice American cool in a Fresno bar.

Xong Vang, who dresses like Madona, watches her parents conduct a Hmong healing ritual in their Fresno home.

Three-year old Neng Vang sports a Superman shirt in front of his Fresno apartment. He was born in Las Vegas.

During ball-tossing, a courtship ritual of Hmong New Year, a singing woman was surrounded by refugees with tape recorders trying to preserve traditional music.