Kenya, Baboons (1 Viewer)

[JayFeatherPL]

Kenya, January 2025
1-9: Amboseli NP
10-13: Masai Mara Reserve
Are these Yellow Baboons, apart from the last 4 photos (10-13) which are Olive Baboons?

 

[T.O.]

Olive baboon is a species that has been expanding it's range and hybrids with other baboon species are quite common. There is a very small, but easily visible, hybrid zone around Awash (with Hamadryas, not yellow) too.

Amboseli is another place where baboons are known to hybridize and the animals in picture 6-8 do look like hybrids to me. 10-13 are pure olive baboons without a doubt. 1-5 do look like (reasonably) pure yellow baboons to me, but as Amboseli falls in the hybrid zone, who knows how pure they really are.

 

[JayFeatherPL]

Olive baboon is a species that has been expanding it's range and hybrids with other baboon species are quite common. There is a very small, but easily visible, hybrid zone around Awash (with Hamadryas, not yellow) too.

Amboseli is another place where baboons are known to hybridize and the animals in picture 6-8 do look like hybrids to me. 10-13 are pure olive baboons without a doubt. 1-5 do look like (reasonably) pure yellow baboons to me, but as Amboseli falls in the hybrid zone, who knows how pure they really are.

Thanks