In defense of the world’s most reviled vertebrate animals: part 2: mammals (bats, hyenas, mice, rats, and skunks)

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Ernest Small

Dr. Ernest Small is a principal scientist with Agriculture Canada, the country’s national department of agriculture. He specialises on the evolution and classification of economically important plants, dealing particularly with food, forage, biodiversity, and medicinal species. He has authored 15 books and over 400 journal publications. He has received several professional honours, including: election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London; the G.M. Cooley Prize of the American Association of Plant Taxonomists for work on the marijuana plant; the Agcellence Award for distinguished contributions to agriculture; the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee medal for contributions to science; the George Lawson Medal, the most prestigious award of the Canadian Botanical Association, for lifetime contributions to botany; the Lane Anderson Award, a $10,000.00 prize for science popularisation; the Dr. Ernest Small Industry Leadership Award of the Canadian Hemp Trade Association; and appointment to the Order of Canada, the nation’s highest recognition of achievements.