After receiving the report, the Meigu County Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it and immediately dispatched the capable police force of the Niuniuba Forest Police Station to form a special team to carry out the investigation of the case. Because the scene of the crime was on the edge of the village, there were few villagers, which brought a certain degree of difficulty to the investigation and handling of the case. Through a large number of visits to several surrounding villages, the police finally got effective clues from a villager, locked up the suspect Ji Ke Moumou, and summoned him to the public security organ for interrogation in accordance with the law.
After interrogation, Ji Ke confessed to the crime of illegally hunting and killing the rare and endangered wild animal black-necked crane. According to Ji Ke's confession, on the night of the crime, he saw a big bird perched by the river on his way home, so he had the crooked idea of catching and eating it. After grabbing it, covering it to death, it is taken home to cook. 
Jike identified the black-necked crane that was killed.
According to the appraisal of the Sichuan Nanshan Environmental Damage Judicial Appraisal Center, the above-mentioned hunted animals are cranes, cranes, and black-necked cranes, which are national first-class key protected wild animals. Based on the tracker and number attached to the crane's feet, it was determined that the black-necked crane was used by the institute to carry out the research on the migration ecology of the black-necked crane.
At present, the criminal suspect Ji Kemou has been criminally detained by the public security organs in accordance with the law on suspicion of endangering precious and endangered wild animals, and the case is being further investigated. 
Ji Ke was detained by **.
It is understood that the black-necked crane is the only one endemic to China among the 15 existing crane species, and it is also the only crane species in the world that grows and breeds on the plateau, and is known as the "plateau fairy" and "plateau sacred bird".
According to the first paragraph of Article 341 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China: Whoever illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wild animals under national key protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or illegally purchases rare or endangered wild animals under national key protection and the products thereof, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years or short-term detention and shall also be fined;where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between 5 and 10 years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given;where the circumstances are especially serious, a sentence of 10 or more years imprisonment and a concurrent fine or confiscation of property is to be given.
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Editors: Diao Jingwen, Zhang Wei.
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