in recognition of your contributions to development of behavioural neuroscience at Yale-NUS College. With special acknowledgement of your 2020 article published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, entitled Why Behavioral Neuroscience Still Needs Diversity? A Curious Case of a Persistent Need (Mathuru, Libersat, Vyas & Teseo). This paper argues for the importance of diverse animal models and ongoing investigation that focuses on the interactions between species in an ecological context – enabling the translation of results from laboratory to field.