Wan-Hong Wei has worked at Yangzhou University’s College of Biological Sciences and Technology since March 2002. In July 1988, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Biology at Northwestern Normal University. He received a master’s degree in animal ecology from the Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 1991. He received his doctorate in zoology from the same institute in May 1999. From June 1993 to January 1994, he was a visiting scholar at the National Center for Ecology Research in the United States and the State University of Mexico. From June 2000 to March 2001, he did his postdoctoral research at the US Geological Survey’s Midcontinent Ecological Science Center in the Division of Biological Resources. From July 1991 to February 2002, he worked at the Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on aspects of animal behavior, behavioral ecology, predator–prey relationships based on olfactory communication, the evolution of plant secondary compounds in relation to animals, and animal behavioral genetics.