• DOI:10.1023/A:1026367307470
Corpus ID: 27900830

Intergeneric Hybrid Baboons

@article{Jolly2004IntergenericHB,
  title={Intergeneric Hybrid Baboons},
  author={C. Jolly and T. Woolley-Barker and S. Beyene and T. Disotell and J. Phillips-Conroy},
  journal={International Journal of Primatology},
  year={2004},
  volume={18},
  pages={597-627}
}

C. Jolly, T. Woolley-Barker, +2 authors J. Phillips-Conroy

Published 2004

Biology

International Journal of Primatology

Though belonging to genera that have been distinct for several million years, gelada and common baboons—Theropithecus gelada and Papio hamadryas sensu lato, respectively—interbreed occasionally, even in the wild. [...] Key Result The F1hybrids were large but developmentally normal. In skull and tooth form, and to a lesser extent in postcranial proportions, they were intermediate between the parental forms but lacked most of their parents' derived, (sub)species-specific epigamic characters. A female infant born…Expand Abstract

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