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From March 2018 to March 2019, Chao X. successively purchased one ball python, one red-tailed anaconda, and four Asian rock pythons for breeding. Among them, he sold the red-tailed anaconda to a person named “Xiaowu” in Huadiwan, Guangzhou at a price of 1,200 yuan, and sold an Asian rock python (Python) to Liu at a price of 3500 yuan.

From April to June 2017, Jinyu W. purchased two live snakes from two WeChat friends at a price of 1700 yuan and 260 yuan through WeChat transfer, respectively. On December 26, 2017,Jinyu W. posted information on the sale of these 2 snakes in the Post Bar, and at the same time contacted potential buyers through WeChat group.

From August to October 2017, Yuan C. posted the sale information of the gold python that he incubated on the "Crawling World" website. During the period, 4 gold pythons were sold. Subsequently, the police seized 30 pythons from his house.

On July 25, 2018, Zebiao K. was arrested by public security personnel while carrying a brown hornbill in the corridor for sale. Subsequently, in the 703 room, the public security personnel seized a living brown hornbill and 14 dead bodies of other wild animals that Zebiao K. purchased from criminals and waited to be sold.

The defendant Jianxing L., illegally purchased 5 pieces of ivory products from elephants which were threatened and endangered wild animals, and shipped them to Sanya and handed them to the defendant Shengqi C. for sale.

On July 26, 2016, the defendant Feng R. was arrested with more than 80 ivory products, which he had purchased but had not been sold from the store he operated, were seized on the spot. The products were made from the upper teeth (ivory) of African or Asian elephants weighing 1551.9 grams.

In March 2017, the defendant Mibo L. purchased two chameleons from the defendant Xin Q. at a price of RMB 200 each. In April 2017, Mibo L. purchased a python from Xin Q. for RMB 500. On June 13, 2017, the defendant Luo Mibo posted a photo through the WeChat Moments, and then sold a leopard claw nail pendant to the defendant Cai S.

In 2014, Li Mou contacted to acquire Gold Python from Ma Mou and informed Zhang Wenjiang of the news. Zhang Wenjiang bought 11 snakes from Ma somewhere for 20,600 yuan and negotiated a sale. In June, Zhang Wenjiang was sold to Zhang Mou and Lu Mou and shipped to Zhang Moujia.

At 18:00 on October 23, 2015, the appellant Shaoliang D. caught an Asian rock python, a state-level key protected wild animal worth RMB 9,000, on the road behind Malutang, Nanxi Town, Hekou County. When he returned home, he killed and cooked the python. Shaoliang D. confessed to have illegally hunted and killed endangered wildlife.