Elisabeth H.M. Sterck Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University ...

Elisabeth H.M. Sterck
Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Ethology Research, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, the Netherlands
List of publications (February 2010)
International (refereed) journals
1. Sterck, E.H.M. (1997) Determinants of female transfer in Thomas langurs
(Presbytis thomasi). American Journal of Primatology 42: 179-198.
2. Sterck, E.H.M. & Steenbeek, R. (1997) Female dominance relationships and
food competition in the sympatric Thomas langur and long-tailed macaque.
Behaviour 134: 749-774.
3. Sterck, E.H.M., Watts, D.P. & van Schaik, C.P. (1997) The evolution of female
social relationships in nonhuman primates. Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology 41: 291-309.
4. Utami, S.S., Wich, S.A., Sterck, E.H.M. and van Hooff J.A.R.A.M. (1997) Food
competition between wild orangutans in large fig trees. International Journal of
Primatology 18: 909-927.
5. Sterck, E.H.M. (1998) Female dispersal, social organization and infanticide in
langurs. Are they linked to human disturbance? American Journal of
Primatology 44: 235-254.
6. Wich, S.A., Sterck, E.H.M. & Utami, S.S. (1999) Are orangutan females as
solitary as chimpanzee females? Folia primatologica 70: 23-28.
7. Sterck, E.H.M. (1999) Variation in langur social organization in relation to the
socioecological model, human habitat alteration and phylogenetic constraints.
Primates 40: 199-213.
8. Wich, S. A., Steenbeek, R., Sterck, E. H. M., Palombit, R. A. and Usman, S.
(1999) Tree mortality and recruitment in an Indonesian rainforest. Tropical
Biodiversity 6: 189-195.
9. Wich, S. A., Fredriksson, G., Sterck, E. H. M. (2002) Measuring fruit patch size
for three sympatric Indonesian primate species. Primates 43: 19-28.
10. Buij, R.; Wich, S. A.; Lubis, A. H.; Sterck, E. H. M. (2002) Seasonal
movements in the Sumatran orangutan. Biological Conservation 107: 83-87.
11. Wich, S. A. , Assink, P. R. , Becher, F. and Sterck, E. H. M. (2002) Playbacks of loud
calls to wild Thomas langurs (Primates; Presbytis thomasi): the effect of location.
Behaviour 139: 65-78.
12. Wich, S. A. , Assink, P. R. , Becher, F. and Sterck, E. H. M. (2002) Playbacks
of loud calls to wild Thomas langurs (Primates; Presbytis thomasi): the effect
of familiarity. Behaviour 139: 79-87.
13. Korstjens, A. H., Sterck, E. H.M. and Noë, R. (2002) How adaptive or
phylogenetically inert is primate social behaviour? A test with two sympatric
colobines. Behaviour 139: 203-225.

14. Wich, S.A. & Sterck, E. H. M. (2003) A possible audience effect in Thomas
langurs (Primates; Presbytis thomasi): An experimental study on male loud
calls in response to a tiger model. American Journal of Primatology 60: 155-
159
15. Wich, S. A., Post, D. J. van der, Heistermann, M., Möhle, U., Hooff, J. A. R. A.
M. van & Sterck, E. H. M. (2003) Life-phase related changes in male loud call
characteristics and testosterone levels in wild Thomas langurs. International
Journal of Primatology 24: 1251-1265.
16. Wich, S. A. , Assink and Sterck, E. H. M. (2004) Thomans langurs (Presbytis
thomasi) discriminate between calls of young solitary versus older group-living
males: a factor in avoiding infanticide? Behaviour141(1): 41-51.
17. Nikitopoulos, E., Arnhem, E. , van Hooff, J.A.R.A.M. & Sterck E.H.M. (2004)
The influence of female copulation calls on male sexual behavior in captive
Macaca fascicularis. Internation Journal of Primatology 25: 659-677.
18. Nikitopoulos, E., Heistermann, M., de Vries, H., van Hooff, J.A.R.A.M. &
Sterck E.H.M. (2005) A pair choice test to identify mating pattern in relation to
ovulation in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Animal Behaviour 70:
1283-1296
19. Sterck, E.H.M., Willems, E.P., van Hooff, J.A.R.A.M and Wich, S.A. (2005)
Female dispersal, inbreeding avoidance and mate choice in Thomas Langurs
(Presbytis thomasi). Behaviour 142: 845-868
20. Toxopeus, I.B., Sterck, E.H.M., Willems, E.P., van Hooff, J.A.R.A.M, Spruijt,
B.M., Heeren, T.J. (2005) Effects of trait anxiety on performance of socially
housed monkeys in a learning test. Behaviour 142: 1269-1287
21. Adrichem, G. G.J. van , Utami, S. S., Wich, S. A., Hooff, J. A.R.A.M. van and
Sterck, E. H.M. (2006) The development of wild immature Sumatran
orangutans (Pongo abelii) at Ketambe. Primates 47: 300-309.
22. Dufour V., Pelé M., Sterck E.H.M. & Thierry B. (2007) Chimpanzee anticipation
of food return: Coping with waiting time in an exchange task. Journal of
Comparative Psychoplogy 121(2): 145-155.
23. Koops, K., Humle T., Sterck E.H.M., Matsuzawa T. (2007) Ground nesting by
the chimpanzees of the Nimba Mountains, Guinea: environmentally or socially
determined?. American Journal of Primatology 69: 407-419.
24. Koski, SE & Sterck, EHM (2007) Triadic post-conflict affiliation in captive
chimpanzees; does consolation console? Animal Behaviour 73: 133-142.
25. Koski, S.E., Koops, K. and Sterck E.H.M. (2007) Reconciliation, relationship
quality and post-conflict anxiety: Testing the Integrated Hypothesis in captive
chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology 69: 158-172.
26. Koski, S. E., Vries, H. de, Tweel, S. W. van den & Sterck, E.H.M. (2007) What
to do after a fight? The determinants and inter-dependency of post-conflict
interactions in chimpanzees. Behaviour 144: 529-555.
27. Wich, S.A., Steenbeek, R., Sterck, E.H.M., Korstjens, A.H. Willems, E.P. and
Schaik, C. P. van (2007) Demography and life history of Thomas langurs
(Presbytis thomasi). American Journal of Primatology 69: 641-651.
28. Wich , S. A.. & Sterck E.H.M. (2007) Familiarity and threat of opponents
determine variation in Thomas langur (Presbytis thomasi) male behaviour
during between-group encounters. Behaviour 144: 1583-1598.
29. Sterck E.H.M. & Dufour V. (2007) First test,then judge future-oriented
behaviour in animals. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30: 333-334.

30. Kempes, M.M., Gulickx, M.M.C., van Daalen, H.J.C., Louwerse, A.L., Sterck,
E.H.M. (2008) Social competence is reduced in socially deprived rhesus
monkeys. Journal of Comparative Psychoplogy 122(1): 62-67.
31. Goossens, B.M.A., Dekleva, M., Reader, S.M., Sterck, E.H.M. & Bolhuis, J.J.
(2008) Gaze following in monkeys is modulated by observed facial
expressions. Animal Behaviour 75: 1673-1681
32. Dufour V. & Sterck E.H.M. (2008) Chimpanzees fail to plan in an exchange
task but succeed in a tool-using procedure. Behavioural Processes 79(1): 19-
27.
33. van Hoogdalem, A.-G., Singer, E., Bekkema, N. & Sterck, E.H.M. (2008)
Young children who intervene in peer conflicts in multicultural child care
centers. Behaviour 145(11): 1653-1670.
34. Kempes, M.M., Orobio de Castro, B. & Sterck, E.H.M (2008) Conflict
management in 6-8 year old aggressive Dutch boys: do they reconcile?
Behaviour 145(11): 1701-1722.
35. Sterck E.H.M. & Goossens, B.M.A. (2008) The meaning of ‘macaque’ facial
expressions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America 105(43): E71.
36. Koski, S. E. & Sterck, E. H. M. (2009) Post-conflict third-party affiliation in
chimpanzees: What’s in it for the third party? American Journal of Primatology
71(5): 409-418.
37. Kempes, M.M., den Heijer, Korteweg, L., Louwerse, A.L., Sterck, E.H.M
(2009) Socially deprived rhesus monkeys fail to reconcile: do they not attempt
or not accept reconciliation? Animal Behaviour 78(2): 271-277.
38. Koski, S. E. & Sterck, E. H. M. (2010) Empathic Chimpanzees: A proposal of
the levels of emotional and cognitive processing in chimpanzee empathy.
European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 7(1): 38-66.
39. Sterck, E. H. M. & Begeer, S. (2010) Theory of Mind: Specialized capacity or
emergent property? European Journal of Developmental Psychology 7(1): 1-
16.
National (refereed) journals
40. Sterck, L., Majdandzic, M. & Louwerse, A. (1997) Man doodt kind: infanticide
bij apen. Biotechniek 36: 110-113.
41. Sterck, L. (1998) Ouderliefde en kindermoord: het gezin vanuit een
gedragsbiologisch perspectief. In: Omdat wij van ons zelf geen huis zijn. Over
gezin en wederkerigheid. P. J. M. van Tongeren (ed.) Annalen van het
Thijmgenootschap 86-1: p. 42-75.
42. Sterck, E.H.M. (2001) Sex en macht bij apen. In: Macht. G. F. Koerselman &
W. van Tilburg (eds.) Stichting Psychoanalyse en Psychiatrie, pp. 21-26.
Edited volume
Sterck, E. H. M., Begeer, S., Cuperus, J.M. & Wezel, R.J.A. van (2010) Theory of Mind:
Specialized capacity or emergent property? Special issue of European Journal of
Developmental Psychology.
Contributions to edited and refereed books
Noordwijk, M.A. van, C.K. Hemelrijk, L.A.M. Herremans & E.H.M. Sterck. (1993) The
socioecology of juvenile long-tailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis. In: Juvenile
primates: life history, development, and behavior. M.E. Pereira and L.A. Fairbanks
(eds.) Oxford University Press, New York.

Sterck, E.H.M. (1995) Females, foods and fights. A socio-ecological comparison of the
sympatric Thomas langur and long-tailed macaque. PhD thesis, Utrecht University,
Utrecht.
Sterck, E.H.M. (1996) The langurs of the Gunung Leuser National Park. In: Leuser. A
Sumatran sanctuary. C.P. van Schaik and J. Supriatna (eds.), Yayasan Bina Sains
Hayati Indonesia, Jakarta. pp. 281-294.
Sterck, E.H.M. & van Hooff, J.A.R.A.M. (2000) The number of males in langur groups:
monopolizability of females or demographic processes? In: Primate males. P. M.
Kappeler (Ed.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. p. 120-129.
Steenbeek, R., Sterck, E.H.M., de Vries, H. & van Hooff, J.A.R.A.M. (2000) Costs and
benefits of the one-male, age-graded and all-male phase in wild Thomas's langur
groups. In: Primate males. P. M. Kappeler (Ed.) Cambridge, Cambridge Univerisity
Press. p. 130-145.
Sterck, E.H.M. & Korstjens, A.H. (2000) Female dispersal and infanticide avoidance in
primates. In: Infanticide by males and its implications. C. P. van Schaik & C.
H.Janson (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 293 - 321.
Sterck, E.H.M. (2002) Predation-sensitive foraging in Thomas langurs. In: L. Miller (ed.)
Eat or be eaten: Predation-sensitive foraging in primates. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, pp. 74-91.
In press
Wich , S.A. & Sterck, E.H.M. (2010) Thomas langurs: ecology and sexual conflict
between males and females. In: Indonesian Primates.
Other
Steenbeek R ; Sterck EHM ; van Schaik CP ; van Hooff JARAM (1991) Contexts of
competition: A comparison between two sympatric Sumatran species (Macaca
fascicularis and Presbytis thomasi). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
ANTHROPOLOGY 6(4): 243
Sterck EHM (1992) Timing of female migrations in the Thomas langur (Presbytis
thomasi). XIVTH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIMATOLOGICAL
SOCIETY. Strasbourg: IPS. 1992: 269
Sterck EHM (1992) The consequences of female philopatry for social relationships in
langurs. PRIMATE EYE 48: 10
Steenbeek R ; Sterck EHM ; van Schaik CP ; van Hooff JARAM (1992) Characteristics
of competition: A comparison between two sympatric Sumatran species (Macaca
fascicularis and Presbytis thomasi). XIVTH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
PRIMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Strasbourg: IPS. 1992: 273-274
Sterck E H M (1996) The evolution of female social relationships in the sympatric
Thomas langur and long-tailed macaque. IPS/ASP CONGRESS ABSTRACTS.
1996: 285
Sterck E H M (1996) Females, foods, and fights: Comparing the ecology and social
behaviour of the sympatric long-tailed macaque and Thomas langur. PRIMATE
REPORT 44: 46-47
Sterck EHM (1997) The effect of ecology and behaviour of females on male mating
strategies: A comparison between Presbytis entellus and other langurs. PRIMATE
REPORT Sp iss 48-2: 36-37
Nijssen EC ; Sterck EHM (2000) The effects of human disturbance on callitrichid social
organisation. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA. 71(4): 235
Sterck EHM ; Korstjens AH (2000) Male infanticide and female dispersal in diurnal
primates. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA 71(4): 213

Nikitopoulos E ; van Hooff JARAM ; Sterck EHM (2001) Do copulation calls by female
long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) incite male-male competition?
ADVANCES IN ETHOLOGY. 2001. (36): 229
Sterck EHM (2001) Sex differences in reproductive skew: An effect of differences in
reproductive potential. PRIMATE REPORT. Sp iss 60-1: 42
Sterck EHM (2001) How to share the loot: Do primates conform to socioecological
nepotism or reproductive skew models? ADVANCES IN ETHOLOGY 36: 269
Sterck EHM ; Poulus J ; de Vries H (2001) Competition, dispersal and variation in
primate group. THE 18TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
PRIMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY. PRIMATES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
ABSTRACTS AND PROGRAMME. Adelaid: IPS. 2001: 459
Sterck, E.H.M. (2002) Review of: Natural Conflict Resolution. Edited by F. Aureli & F. M.
B. deWaal. University of California Press (2000), Berkeley, U.S.A. Human Ethology
Bulletin.
Lubis AH ; Wich SA ; Sterck EHM ; Buij R (2002) Population estimates and seasonal
movement in the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii). CARING FOR PRIMATES.
ABSTRACTS OF THE XIXTH CONGRESS. THE INTERNATIONAL
PRIMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Beijing: Mammalogical Society of China. 2002: 231-
232
Sterck EHM (2003) Variation in primate behaviour and reproduction: Linking
reproductive skew and socio-ecological models. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA. 74(4):
183
Koops K ; Humle T ; Matsuzawa T ; Sterck EHM (2004)Terrestrial nesting in the
chimpanzees of Nimba Mountains, Guinea, West Africa: environmental or social?
FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA. 2004. 75(S1): 387
Nikitopoulos E ; Heistermann M ; de Vries H ; van Hooff JA ; Sterck EH (2004)
Promiscuous or selective? A pair choice test in female long-tailed macaques
(Macaca fascicularis). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 2004. 62(Suppl
1): 73-74
Toxopeus IB ; Sterck EHM ; Heeren TJ ; van Hooff JARAM ; Spruijt BM (2004) Influence
of dominance rank, age and acute stress on cognitive performance in group-living
long-tailed macaques. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA. 2004. 75(1): 57-58
Toxopeus IB ; Sterck EHM ; Heeren TJ ; van Hooff JARAM ; Spruijt BM (2004) Influence
of dominance rank, age and acute stress on cognitive performance in group-living
long-tailed macaques. PRIMATE EYE. 2003. (80): 23
Koops K ; Humle T ; Matsuzawa T ; Sterck EHM (2004) Ground nesting in the
chimpanzees of the Nimba Mountains, Guinea, West Africa: environmental or social?
[Abstract] THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG
PSYCHOLOGISTS ON EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITION.
PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS. Kyoto: Kyoto University, pp. Abst #Oral-20
Sterck EHM ; Nikitopoulos E ; Heistermann M ; de Vries JH ; van Hooff JARAM (2005)
Female choice in long-tailed macaques: an experimental study of mating preferences
in relation to the female cycle. [Abstract] PRIMATE REPORT 72: 93
Koops K ; Humle T ; Matsuzawa T ; Sterck L (2005) Ground nesting in the chimpanzees
of Nimba Mountains, Guinea, West Africa: environmental or social? [Abstract]
PRIMATE REPORT 72. Pgs: 54-55
Koski SE ; Sterck L (2005) Is consolation consoling? Post-conflict third party affiliation in
captive chimpanzees. [Abstract] PRIMATE REPORT 72. Pgs: 55
Sterck EHM ; Nikitopoulos E ; Heistermann M ; de Vries JH ; van Hooff JARAM (2005)
Female choice in long-tailed macaques: an experimental study of mating preferences
in relation to the female cycle. [Abstract] PRIMATE REPORT 72. Pgs: 93

Nikitopoulos E ; Engelhardt A ; Sterck EH ; Heistermann M ; Fischer J (2006) Signal
content of female copulation calls in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis).
[Abstract] INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY 27(Suppl 1). Pgs: Abst
#535
Wich S ; Sterck E (2006) Between-group encounters in Thomas langurs. [Abstract]
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 2006. 27(Suppl 1). Pgs: Abst
#187
Koops K ; Humle T ; Sterck EHM; Matsuzawa T (2008) Ground-nesting in the
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of the Nimba Mountains, Guinea, West Africa:
New findings. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA 79(5): 346
Koski SE ; Sterck EHM (2008) Self-regarding consolers - Chimpanzee post-conflict thirdparty-initiated
affiliation benefits the affiliators. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA 79(5): 347
Van Dongen M ; Meuleman B ; Koski SE ; Pereboom Z ; Sterck EHM (2008) Bonobo
(Pan paniscus) conflict management and reconciliation during potentially stressful
situations. FOLIA PRIMATOLOGICA 79(5): 324
Koski SE ; Sterck EHM ; McGrew WC (2008) Chimpanzee personality studied with a
behavioural approach. PRIMATE EYE. 2008. 96 (Sp CD-ROM iss - IPS 2008). Pgs:
Abst #123
Sterck EHM (2008) The Australopithecus - Homo transition: a general primate pattern or
a special hominine feature. PRIMATE EYE. 2008. 96 (Sp CD-ROM iss - IPS 2008).
Pgs: Abst #42