Anne Innis Dagg’s Curriculum Vitae

Education

BA 1955 University of Toronto Honours Biology

MA 1956 University of Toronto Genetics

PhD 1967 University of Waterloo Animal Behavior

Academic and Research Experience

1954-56 Demonstrator at University of Toronto - Botany, Genetics,
Zoology

1956-57 Research on giraffe in South Africa in affiliation with Rhodes
University, Grahamstown

1958 Demonstrator, University of Ottawa - Anatomy

1962-65 Part-time lecturer at Waterloo Lutheran University - Anatomy,
Physiology

1966 Demonstrator, University of Waterloo - Anatomy

1967 Sessional Assistant Professor, University of Guelph - Zoology

1967-68 Research Associate at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia

1968-72 Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of
 Guelph - Mammalogy, Biology

1972-2013 Freelance Writer and Research Biologist

1978-85 Resource Person, Integrated Studies, University of Waterloo

1989-2013 Senior Academic Advisor, Independent Studies Program, University of Waterloo (Academic Director 1986-89)

Honours

Gold Medal in Biology on graduation from University of Toronto, 1955.

Fellow of the Zoological Society of Ontario, 1967.

Chosen one of eight top living female biologists in Canada by the federal government for the National Museums of Canada's Why? Why Not? Exhibit. 1975, International Women's Year.

Biological Consultant for World Book from 1982 to 2010.

Kitchener-Waterloo Status of Women Group Human Rights Award, 1984.

Presented with the Pioneer Award (now called the Anne Dagg Pioneer Award) for research on giraffe at the 2010 inaugural conference in Phoenix, Arizona, of the International Association of Giraffe Care Professionals.

Bishop Strachan School where she attended high school awarded her the Distinguished Old Girl Award for 2011.

Recipient of the Dr. Anne Innis Dagg Lifetime Achievement Award at the Giraffid International Conference at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, 2016.

Included in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who of Canadian Women, Contemporary Authors, The International Authors and Writers' Who's Who, The World Who's Who of Women, International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, and Dictionary of International Biography.

Named the 2018 Canadian Eco-Hero at Planet in Focus.

Recipient of the Women of Influence Award from the Zonta Club for 2018.

Featured in “Courage and Passion: Canadian Women in Natural Sciences” at the Canadian Museum of Nature in 2018.

The annual Dr. Anne Innis Dagg Summer Research Assistantship was created at the University of Guelph in 2019.

Made an Honorary Member of the Canadian Society of Zoologists and an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution in 2019.

Awarded for her Exceptional Public Service by the Canadian Consulate in 2019.

Recipient of the Laurence J Burpee Medal of Honour from The Royal Canadian Geographic Society in 2019.

Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Waterloo in 2019.

Appointed to the Order of Canada by the Governor General in 2019.

Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Toronto in 2020.

Honored as a Giraffe Hero by The Giraffe Heroes Project in 2020.

Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science from Mounty Saint Vincent University in 2020.

Received the University College Alumni of Influence award in 2021.

Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science from McMaster University in 2021.

Inducted into the Waterloo Region Hall of Fame in 2022.

Received an Honorary Membership to the Canadian Federation of University Women in 2022.

Recipient of the Courage Award from WXN’s Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award

Recipient of the Umvikeli Wildlife Protector Award 2022 from Wild Tomorrow Fund. 

Authored Books

1972 Mammals of Waterloo and South Wellington Counties. Waterloo,
ON: Otter Press. With C. A. Campbell. 130 pp. 

1974 Canadian Wildlife and Man. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
192 pp. 

1974 Mammals of Ontario. Waterloo, ON: Otter Press. 160 pp. 

1976   The Giraffe: its Biology, Behavior and Ecology. New York: 1977. Van
Nostrand Reinhold. With J. B. Foster. 210 pp.

1977   Wildlife Management in Europe. Waterloo, ON: Otter Press. 350 pp. 

1977   Running, Walking and Jumping - the Science of Locomotion.
London: Wykeham Science Series, Taylor and Francis Group. 144 pp. 

1978   Camel Quest - Research on the Saharan Camel. Toronto: York
Publishing. 150 pp. 

1981 A Reference Book of Urban Ecology. Waterloo, ON: Otter Press.
196 pp. 

1981 The Camel: its Ecology, Behavior and Relationship with Man.
 Chicago: University of Chicago Press. With H. Gauthier-Pilters.
208 pp. 

1983 Harems and Other Horrors: Sexual Bias in Behavioral Biology.
Waterloo, ON: Otter Press. 130 pp.

1986  The Fifty Per Cent Solution: Why Should Women Pay for Men's
Culture? Waterloo, ON: Otter Press. 300 pp. 

1986 Moreton Island: Its History and Natural History. Tangalooma
Resorts, Moreton Island, Qld., Australia. 58 pp. 

1988 MisEducation: Women and Canadian Universities. Toronto: OISE
Press. With Patricia J. Thompson. 135 pp. 

1994 User-Friendly University: What Every Student Should Know.
Waterloo, ON: Otter Press. 76 pp. 

2001 The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-fiction
Women Authors and their Books, 1836-1945. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid
Laurier University Press. 346 pp. 

2005  "Love of Shopping" is Not a Gene: Problems with Darwinian
Psychology. Montreal: Black Rose Press. 225 pp. 

2006 Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press. 282 pp. 

2009 The Social Behavior of Older Animals. Baltimore, MA: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 225 pp. 

2011 Animal Friendships. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

2012 Human Evolution and Male Aggression: Debunking the Myth of
 Man and Ape. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. With Lee Harding.
257 pp. 

2014 Giraffe: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation. UK: Cambridge, UK:
 Cambridge University Press. 247 pp. 

2016 5 Giraffes. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

2016  Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist. McGill-Queen’s
University Press.

2020 Mary Quayle Innis: The Woman Who Inspired Me. Otter Press. 110 pp.

2021 Chilkoot Challenge. Otter Press. 108 pp.

Refereed Research Papers

1958 The behaviour of the giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis, in the eastern Transvaal. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 131: 4 245-78.

1959  Food preferences of the giraffe. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 135: 640-42. 

1960  Gaits of the giraffe and the okapi. J. Mammal. 41: 282. 

1962 The role of the neck in the movements of the giraffe. J. Mammal. 43: 88-97.

1962 The subspeciation of the giraffe. J. Mammal. 43: 550-52. 1962 The distribution of the giraffe in Africa. Mammalia 26: 497-505.

1965 Sexual differences in giraffe skulls. Mammalia 29: 610-12.

1968 The walking gaits of some species of Pecora. J. Zool., London 155: 103-10. With A. de Vos.

1968 The fast gaits of some Pecoran species. J. Zool., London 155: 499-506.  With A. de Vos.

1968  External features of giraffe. Mammalia32: 657-69. 

1969  The gallop of the wildebeest. J. Mammal. 50: 825-26. 

1969  A survey of student hunters and nonhunters. Ontario Field Biol. 23: 30-31. With D. E. Whitelock. 

1970  Tactile encounters in a herd of captive giraffe. J. Mammal. 51: 279-87. 

1970 Preferred environmental temperatures of some captive mammals. Internat. Zoo Yearbook 10: 149-52.

1970 Wildlife in an urban area. Naturaliste Can. 97: 201-12. 

1970  Flehmen. Mammalia34: 686-95. With A. Taub. 

1971  The gaits of the Macropodinae (Marsupialia). J. Zool., London 163: 1-12.  With D. E. Windsor.

1971 Olfactory discrimination limits in gerbils. Can. J. Zool. 49: 1-6. With D. E. Windsor

1971 Urine marking of cages and visual isolation as possible sources of error in behavioural studies of small mammals. Laboratory Animals 5: 163-67. With W. L. Bell and D. E. Hall. 

1971 The scientific name of the reticulated giraffe; proposed rejection of Giraffa camelopardalis australis Rhoads, 1896. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 28: 100-1. With W. F. H. Ansell. 

1972 Swimming in northern terrestrial mammals. Can. J. Zool. 50: 117-30. With D. E. Windsor. 

1972 Notes on the biology of the giraffe. East African Wildlife Journal 10: 1-16. With J. B. Foster. 

1972  Research on Canadian mammals. Can. Field-Naturalist 86: 217-221. 

1973  Gaits in mammals. Mammal Review 3: 135-54. 

1974  The locomotion of the camel (Camelus dromedarius). J. Zool., London 174: 67-78. 

1975  Fusion of the distal femoral epiphysis in male and female 5 marten and fisher. Can. J. Zool. 53: 1514-18. With D. Leach and G. Sumner-Smith.

1975  In defense of small publishers. J. Can. Studies 20, 2:83. 

1976  The morphology of the femur in marten and fisher. Can. J. Zool. 54: 559-65. With D. Leach. 

1976  Bird populations in downtown and suburban Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Ontario Field Biol. 30: 1-22. With C. A. Campbell.

1977  The walk of the silver gull (Larus novaehollandiae) and of other birds. J. Zool., London 182: 529-40. 

1977 Diagnosis of lameness in dogs: a preliminary study. Can. Vet. J. 18: 58-63. With D. Leach and G. Sumner-Smith.

1977 Comment on Giraffa camelopardalis australis Rhoads, 1896. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 33: 136-37.

1979 The walk of large quadrupedal mammals. Can. J. Zool. 57: 1157-63.

1982 Aging marten and fisher by development of the supra-fabellar tubercle. J. Wildlife Management 46: 246-47. With D. Leach and B. K. Hall.

1983 Evolution of equine locomotion research. Equine Vet. J. 15: 87-92. With D. Leach.

1983 A review of research on equine locomotion and biomechanics.Equine Vet. J. 15: 93-102. With D. Leach.

1984 Sexual bias in the literature of social behaviour in mammals and birds. Internatl. J. Women's Studies 7: 118-35.

1984 Homosexual behaviour and female-male mounting in mammals--a first survey. Mammal Rev. 14: 155-85. 

1984  Sexist language and science. Resources for Feminist Research 13, 3: 32-33. 

1985  The status of some Canadian women PhD scientists. Atlantis 11: 66-77. 

1986  Scientists vs females. Resources for Feminist Research 15,3: 19-21. 

1989  Research publications on Canadian mammals, 1971-1986. Can. J. Zoology. 67: 779-84. 

1990 Women in science--are conditions improving?  pp. 337-48 in Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science. ed. M. G. Ainley. Véhicule Press, Montreal.

1991  Is there a feminist science? Perceived impact of gender on research by women scientists. With Rachelle Sender Beauchamp. Atlantis26, 2: 77-84. 

l992 Canadian voices of authority: Non-fiction and early women writers.J. Can. Studies 27,2: 107-122. 

l992       Feminism reviled:  academic  non-freedom at  Canadian universities. Can. Woman's Studies 12, 3: 89-92. 

l993       Academic faculty wives and systemic discrimination -- antinepotism and 'inbreeding'. Can. J. Higher Education, 23, 1: 1-18.

l993 Toward a feminist academy. Policy Options 14,2: 13-18.

1994 Memories of my Father, Harold Adams Innis, in Queen's Quarterly 101,1: 79-91 

1997  Prestige, power, and the naming of brown bears. Queen's Quarterly 104,1: 97-106. 

1998  Hiring of women at Canadian universities: The subversion of equity. In Jacqueline Stalker and Susan Prentice, eds. The Illusion of Inclusion: Women in Post-Secondary Education, 108-118. Halifax: Fernwood. 

1998  Infanticide by male lions hypothesis: A fallacy Influencing research into human behavior. American Anthropologist 100,4: 1-11. 

1999  Sexual selection is debatable. Anthrop. News 40,9: 20. 

1999  Responsible animal-based research: Three flags to consider. J. Applied Anim. Welfare Science 2,4: 337-346. 

2000  Animal experimentation in cancer research: A citation analysis. J. Applied Anim. Welfare Science 3,3: 239-251. 

2001. The infanticide hypothesis: A response to the response. Amer. Anthropologist 102, 4: 831-834. 

2004 Levels of citation of animal studies conducted at a Canadian research hospital. J. Applied Anim. Welfare Science 7,3: 205-213.

2014 Roots of molestation of boys? Sociology and Anthropology 2,1: 25-27. 

Other Articles and Reports

1961  Elementary ecology of the Kruger National Park antelope. African Wild Life 15: 113-15. 

1962  Giraffe movement and the neck. Natur. Hist., New York 71: 44-51. 

1963  A French giraffe. Frontiers27: 115-17f. 

1970  Recent wildlife research. UW Pollution Probe News. Aug. 

1971  Locomotion: Stepping and Jumping. Nature 230, Mar. 12. 

1974 Mammals and sex. Woman's Place Magazine 2, 2: 8.

1974 Wolverine. Hinterland Who's Who. Can. Wildlife Service.

1974 An annotated bibliography on the status and ecology of the wolverine in Canada. 45 pp. With C. A. Campbell. For Can. Wildlife Service.

1974  Numbers and distribution of the wolverine in Canada and the northern United States. With C. A. Campbell. 35 pp. For Can. Wildlife Service.

1975  Relationship of urban birds and people. With C. A. Campbell and W. Schaeffer. 60 pp. For Can. Wildlife Service.

1975 Studies in urban nature. Conservation Council of Ontario Bull. Jan. pp 10-14. With C. A. Campbell. 

1978 Legs, legs, legs. Internatl. Wildlife 8: 4-13. 

1978 Russian rushing. Phys 13 News. Dec. Univ. of Waterloo. 

1979 Behind almost every animal is a good tail. Internatl. Wildlife 9: 18-23. 

1979 Comment on PhDs. Imprint28: 23. Mar. 29. 

1980 76 Terrific Books about Women. Otter Press, Waterloo.

1981  Getting old. Internatl. Wildlife 11: 33-35. 

1981  A questionnaire survey of working women in Kitchener and Waterloo, 1980. 17 pp.

1982  Canadian books for Ontario public libraries. Prepared for the Writers' Union of Canada Library Committee.

1982 It takes two to tango. Internatl. Wildlife. July/Aug.

1982 What's in a sniff? Internatl. Wildlife. Sep/Oct 16-18.

1982 Updated supplementary material for reprint edition of book The Giraffe. pp. 182-203.

1982/83 Are women scientists worthless? This magazine. Dec/Jan. 

1983 Déjà vu down under. Broadside. Aug/Sep.

1983 Everest or bust. This Magazine. June.

1983/84 She's just being hysterical! Hysteria2,4: 28.

1984 Kangaroo controversy. Anim. Kingdom. Feb/Mar. 12-19. 1984 Rape's progress. This Magazine. Aug. 9-10.

1984 Let's hear it for dad. Internatl. Wildlife. Mar/Apr. 41-45.

1984  Are Canadian women writers fairly treated? For Writers' Union of Canada. July.

1984  Harold Innis' 1924 Mackenzie River journals. Harold Innis Foundation Newsletter. Nov. 

1985  Sexist language unethical. Alternatives. Dec. p. 2. 

1985 Harold Innis as Naturalist. Harold Innis Foundation. 1985 Of dromedaries, dunes, and drought. Anim. Kingdom. May/June 35-40. Reprinted in Social Issues Resources Series--Life Science Volume. Women as subset. Broadside. Nov.

1987 Books by women neglected. Can. Library J. April, 65-66. Chosen for inclusion in Alternative Library Literature.

1987 Women and writing: A fact sheet. Resources for Feminist Research 16,2: 94. 

1987  The Innis years at U of T. Harold Innis Foundation Newsletter. September. 

1988  Women's bodies in sport: Will amalgamation or integration mean progress? The Starting Line (Canadian Association for the Advancement of Woman and Sport) 7,1: 10-12. Fall. With Pat Davis. 

1988 Comment on The PhD Trap. Can. J. Higher Education 18, 2: 98-99.

1988  Going 'co-ed' spells trouble for women. Kinesis (Vancouver Status of Women). Oct. With Pat Davis.

1989  "Never Again" article included in Grade 8 Language Arts textbook Cycles 2 published by Prentice-Hall.

1989 Women as graduate students: discrimination and accessibility. Women in Graduate Studies in Ontario, Ontario Council of Graduate Studies, Council of Ontario Universities, 28-31. Sep.

1989 How to hire more women professors. Women Academics: From Issues to Action, Conf., Univ. of Manitoba, 31-36. Oct.

1989  Women in science, Phys 13 News, 6-7. Dec. 

1990  A call to adventure. KinesisJul/Aug. p 10. 

1990 Squeezing out graduate options. University Affairs Aug/Sep. p 21.

1990 Sexism and universities: the myth of academic excellence. With Sheelagh Conway. Brief for the Commission of Inquiry on Canadian University Education.

1990 OCUFA Status of Women Report on Faculty Women.

1990  Women in science – Are conditions improving? In Marianne Ainley, ed. Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science, 337-348. Montreal: Véhicule Press.

1991  Manipulating data: woman in scientific research, pp. 29-32 in Women's Experience, Women's Education: An Anthology, eds. Anne Innis Dagg, Sheelagh Conway and Margaret Simpson. Otter Press, Waterloo.

1991 The independent scholar--passionate about research. UW Gazette, Jan. 9.

1991 Memories of Innis. This Magazine Jun/Jul. pp 33-34. 

1991 Jane Deer in science: sample case. Women's Education 9, 2: 57-60. 

1992  Report on academic articles published by women in Canada. Women's Studies International. J. 15,1: vii-viii. 

2000 Mary Quayle Innis (1899-1972). In Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn L. Forget, eds. A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, 223-227.

2002 “Jane Deer in Science: A Sample Case” reprinted in Health Issues 9: 125-129. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. 

2007 Chapter accepted "Blame and Shame? How can we reduce unproductive animal experimentation?" for a book on animal rights.

2008 “Blame and Shame? How can we reduce unproductive animal experimentation?” Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuan World, edited by Jodey Castricano.

Works in Encyclopedias and the Press

1970 The giraffe. Mammalian Species Paper No. 5, Amer. Mus. Natur. Hist. Series 1-8.

1970 The giraffe. The okapi. Elsevier's Animal Encyclopedia, London. 

1970  Wildlife likes, dislikes probed in Waterloo Study. Kitchener-Waterloo Record. March 25, 1970. 

1971  Stepping and jumping. Nature230. March 12. 

1973 Camel culture in Mauritania is in jeopardy. Globe and Mail. August 16.

1981 The rain forest. Imprint, University of Waterloo. Nov. 20.

1984  What happens to women's art? Globe and Mail. Aug. 4. 

1985  Gorillas just wanna have fun. Toronto Star. July 27. 

1985 Wildlife preserves. The Canadian Encyclopedia, Hurtig, Edmonton. Updated in 1987. With Scott Slocombe. 

1985 Nothing queer about gays, biologist finds. Toronto Sun. June 12. 

1985  'Natural' acts. Homosexual behavior noted in animals. Kitchener-Waterloo Record. June 12. 

1986  The Camel. The Giraffe. The Dromedary. World Book, New York. Also articles about aardwolf, alpaca, antelope, dingo, fennec, llama, pika, vicuna. 

1987  For World Book, Inc., articles on dik-dik, gemsbok, hartebeest, okapi, springbok, steinbok. 

1988  Article on universities for Handbook of Canadian Women edited by Marguerite Andersen. Accepted. 

1988 The Giraffe. New Book of Knowledge.

1988 Universities sexist, book says. Globe and Mail. May 11. 

1989 Class Act: A feminist university. Globe and Mail. Feb. 28. 

Other Professional Activities

1965-82 Translation of French abstracts into English for the journal Mammalia (Paris). 

1969-72 Coding of articles in Mammaliafor the American Museum of Natural History, New York. 

1972-75 Founding member of OIKOS Associates, an environmental consulting group. 

1974-76 Book Review Editor, Canadian Field-Naturalist.

1977-80 National Director, Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists. Editor of Ontario Branch Newsletter. 1981-82 National Council, Writers' Union of Canada. (Member 1974-1989.)

1983-1993 Director, Harold Innis Foundation. 1988-90 Chairperson of Research Committee.

1990-93  President of Foundation.

1986-2010 President, Mary Quayle Innis Foundation.

1988-90  Member of OCUFA Status of Women Committee. Appointed Chair for 1989-90. 

1988-91  Co-editor/Editor of UW Faculty Association FORUM. Chair of the Editorial Board. 

1990-91 Member of Editorial Board for WLU book on women graduate students in Canadian universities. 

1990-91   Board Member, Faculty Association, Univ. of Waterloo.

Referee for Scientific Papers (or Books) for:

Science, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Canadian Field-Naturalist, Journal of Chemical Ecology, Journal of Mammalogy, National Geographic, International Wildlife, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, National Wildlife, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Mammalogy Species Paper, Cornell University Press, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Press, University of Manitoba women in Post-Secondary Education Project. 

Book Reviews (about 35) for:

Journal of Mammalogy, Quill and Quire, Canadian Field-Naturalist, Broadside, Canadian Association of Women in Science News, Resources for Feminist Research, Canadian Woman Studies, Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo FORUM, Atlantis, Canadian Association of University Teachers Bulletin, American Anthropologist. 

Biological Consultant

1962 United Press Movietonews. re Giraffe 16 mm footage. Nov. 

1969 National Geographic Magazine. re Book on East African animals. Jan. 

1975 Science Magazine, CBC.  Current research.  May.

1978 National Geographic Magazine. re Giraffe Research. Nov. 

1978 International Wildlife. re Giraffe article. Mar. 

1979 Nature of Things, CBC.  Locomotion and tail movement.

1980 National Geographic Society. re Mammal Dictionary. July. 

1980 CBC, re Urban wildlife.

1980  Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. re Canadian Field- Naturalist. Nov. 

1981  Owl Magazine. re Camels. May. 

1982  Giraffes. Wildlife Education, San Diego. l6 pp. 

1984 Camels. Wildlife Education, San Diego. 16 pp. 

1984  Film on giraffe. Africa's Tallest Story, Living Wild, WGBH, Boston. 

1985  UEA (Skip Poole). Advice on how to keep camels away from bridges in Bahrain. 

1987   International Wildlife author Knowles Detweiler, Washington. re spitting in camels. Oct. 27. 

1988 Manitoba Government, re killing of man by a zoo camel.

1989 Continuing Member of the Biological Sciences Committee of World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago.

l992  Field Museum, Chicago, Caravan across the Sahara exhibit, June. 

l993  Tony Murphy, FAX 818 795 0585, physiology of giraffe circulatory system. 

Additional consultation after 1993 has typically occurred through brief telephone consultations with veterinarians, biologists, and zoo management.

Administration

Founder and manager of Otter Press, Waterloo.

Management of Research grants while at University of Guelph which involved supervising MSc students, organizing committees and projects, ordering equipment, etc. 

Supervisor of Research project on Working Women in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region - Summer 1980, funded by the Secretary of state.

Founder and editor of Language Alert Newsletter (1983-1996) which is devoted to the dissemination of information to publishers and the public about sexist language. 

Organizer for the conference "The Innis Years at the University Toronto: 1920-1952."  March 14, 1987.

Presentations

1959 Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.  CBC Radio, Ottawa.

1960 Studying the Giraffe.  CBC Radio, Trans-Canada Matinee.

1965 The Giraffe. To University of Guelph Biology Club. Feb. 18. 

1974  Reactions of people to urban wildlife. Symposium on wildlife in an urbanizing environment. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. pp. 163-65.

1975  The normal and pathological walk and trot in dogs. British Association of Small Animal Practitioners. Meeting, April. With D. Leach and G. Sumner-Smith. 

1979 Radio Interview re camels. CBC. Ontario Morning. Jan. 30. 

1981 Brief on the Ontario Human Rights Commission re Bill 7 to Resources Committee. June 3. 

1982 Women and sociobiology.  Radio talk and debate.  Ideas. CBC Radio.  April.

1982 Sexist language in the Church. To Adult Group of Emmanuel United Church, Waterloo. May 2 and May 9. 

1982 Feminism. To two classes at Forest Heights Collegiate in Kitchener. May 18. 

1983 The status of women in Canada. Women's Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Feb. 

1983 Homosexual behaviour in mammals.  To Veterinary Anatomy Department,   University  of   Queensland,   Brisbane, Australia.  Apr. 7.

1984 Brief for equality of women in Ontario universities to Bovey Commission, Wilfrid Laurier University. Sep. 10. 

1984 Adventures of a Writer. Class at St. Margaret's School, Elora. Nov. 

1985 “Women Writers" in Women in the Arts Forum.  Integrated

1986 Studies, University of Waterloo.  April 13.

1985 Homosexuality in mammals. Radio Interview, London, June 13; Radio Interview, CBC, St. John's, Newfoundland, July 28; Radio Interview, CBC, Fredericton, July. 

1986 Sexism in behavioral biology. Sponsor, Advisory Council on Human Resources, University of Waterloo, Oct 27.

1986 Sexist language WPIRG, University of Waterloo, Nov. 18.

1987 Radio Interview, CBC, Metro Morning, Feb 2, re women artists. 

1987 Radio Interview, CBC, Metro Morning, May 12, re women's books and libraries.

1987 Chair of session on Social Behaviour at April meeting of The Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (Upper Canada Branch). 

1987 Women and writing in Canada.  Conference: Gender in the '80s. Wilfrid Laurier University.  Jan. 30.

1987 Women and writing in Canada.  For International Women's Week, University of Waterloo.  Mar. 6.

1987 Women and writing. Canadian Authors Association, K-W Branch. Apr. 6. 

1987 Women and writers. To Status of Women Session at the Annual General Meeting of the Writers' Union of Canada. May 29. 

1987 Women Writers.  English class 108E.  Nov. 20.

1988  Interviews (May, June) re book MisEducationwith Globe and Mail, K-W Record, Kingston Whig-Standard; radio stations in Toronto (Quirks and Quarks), Vancouver, Calgary, York University, Ottawa, Toronto (CHUM-FM) andfor Canadian Book Information Centre; TV Interview on Canada AM on May 16, '88. 

1988 Sexism in language and effective writing.  Two talks to an Elderhostel Group, June 23, 24.

1988 Canoeing down the Yukon. Slideshow. Apr 15 on UW Campus. 

1988 Women and Canadian Universities. Lecture, University of Guelph. Nov. 2. 

1989 A feminist university? Lecture, McMaster University. Jan. 26. 

1989 Women and Canadian Universities. Lecture, University of Winnipeg.  Mar. 3.

1989 Women in Graduate Studies. Speech to Ontario Council on Graduate Studies/Council of Ontario Universities Conference of May 18, 1989 at Milford Inn, Ontario. 

1989 Women and Writing. Lecture for UW Engl. 208E, Aug 9.

1989 From Issues to Action: How to Hire More Women Professors. Lecture, University of Manitoba. Oct. 12. 

1989 Interview on CKCO TV re Montreal university massacre, Dec. 7, of women engineering students. 

1990 Women and Canadian Universities to Commission of Inquiry on Canadian University Education, Toronto, Nov. 23. 

1991 Distinguished Speaker on Women and Science at Simon Fraser University, Mar. 20 and 21. 

1991 Speaker on "Women and Science: Can the Mad Scientist be a Woman?" at the University of Guelph, Mar. 27.

1991 Speaker on Women and Universities in English 785E lecture for Prof. Stan Fogel.

1991 Invited speaker, "Gender balance in 50 Canadian learned journals," Canadian Association of Learned Journals, Kingston, ON, May 30. 

1991 Invited speaker on Women and Universities for Learned Societies Conference on "Women in Universities," Kingston, ON, June 3. 

1991 Speaker on Feminism and Language for Planning Course 480F for Prof. Harry Coblentz. 

l992 Talk to  Graduate  Students Association,  orientation meeting, Sep 16, about women at the Univ. of Waterloo.

l993 Making biology more humane. Gender and Science and Technology International Conference, Waterloo, ON Aug 3. 

2004 University of Ottawa. Symposium on Alternatives to AnimalTesting, March 5. "Can Inferior Researchers be Shamed?" 

2005 Talk to the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, London ON, on the problem of few citations for animal research papers, June. 

2005 Talk to English class on sociobiolgy. Prof. Stan Fogel, University of Waterloo, May.

2009 Talk to Anthropology course on the social behaviour of older animals. Prof. Harriet Lyons, University of Waterloo. March. 

2009  Talk for Luther Village Forum on the behaviour of old animals. June. 

2010  Talk on the first study of giraffe in Africa, 1956-1967. Conference of the International Association of Giraffe Care Professionals, Phoenix, Arizona. February. 

2011  Talk to the Old Girls group of Bishop Strachan School (Toronto) about my career on being honoured as “Old Girl of the Year.” November. 

2012  Talk on current research on giraffe. Conference of the International Association of Giraffe Care Professionals, San Francisco, California. February. 

2013  Talk on historical chronology of giraffe research. Biannual Conference of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation. Nairobi. August. 

2013  Talk on recent giraffe controversies to System Design Engineering class of Prof. David Clausi, University of Waterloo. October. 

2014  Talk about giraffe controversies to human-animal communication course of Prof. Judith Nicholson, Wilfrid Laurier University. March. 

2017 Bercovitch, FB, Berry FSM, Dagg A, Deacon F, Doherty JB, Lee D et al. How many species of giraffe are there? Current Biology 2017; 27 = R136-R137 

Books About Anne

2020 Protectors of the Planet by Jamie Bastedo.

2021 The Girl Who Loved Giraffes by Kathy Stinson.

2022 Anne and Her Tower of Giraffes by Karlin Gray.