text: Robert Wright Anyone who doubts that male chimpanzees spend lots of time fighting over females should read Frans de Waal 's book Chimpanzee Politics . Though the chimp colony de Waal studied was not in a purely natural setting , as were the chimps at Gombe studied by Jane Goodall , de Waal , for that very reason , got a clearer look at daily life within a colony than Goodall did .
  
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  The chimp colony de Waal studied was not in a purely natural setting