Is the cobra a protected animal?
The cobra is listed on the List of National Key Protected Wild Animals in China, and belongs to the second class of national protected animals. At the same time, the cobra is also listed in the appendix of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). This shows that the protection of cobras has been emphasized not only in China but also at the international level. The cobra is a reptile of the cobra family Cobraidae. Cobra neck can be inflated, the back of the neck has a similar cobra-like markings; after the top scales do not have a pair of large occipital scales; under the tail scales in two rows; head and body dorsal black or black-brown, the neck has a variety of similar cobra-like white markings, in the neck is particularly clear when the neck is inflated; the body of the tail dorsal narrow yellowish-white transverse stripes, there are a single or double, the more neatly obvious or not neatly inconspicuous; the neck and the body of the front of the ventral surface of the yellowish-white, the neck ventral surface of the two black dots and a black transverse spots The ventral surface after the middle part of the body is gradually grayish brown or blackish brown.