Dingzhen Liu

I mainly study the individual recognition and underlying mechanisms of mate choice in mammals via chemical, auditory and visual modalities. In particularly, I use captive giant pandas as my subjects to test and answer some interesting questions in animal communication and sexual selection. At the meantime, I am also interested in animal cognition issues. We will design and run some experiments to examine animals’ cognitive ability in captivity. Last, we also spend more time making every effort to try to improve animal welfare in captive wildlife. The common and traditional method we used is to collect fecal and urinary samples to monitor captive animals’ stress level in addition to behavioral observation.