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===Hybrids=== Primate [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrids]] usually arise in captivity,<ref name="songs">{{cite journal |title=Songs of hybrid gibbons (''Hylobates lar'' Γ ''H. muelleri'') |author=Tenaza, R. |year=1984 |journal=American Journal of Primatology |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=249β253 |doi=10.1002/ajp.1350080307|pmid=31986810 |s2cid=84957700 }}</ref> but there have also been examples in the wild.<ref name="natoccur">{{cite journal |year=1966 |title=Naturally occurring primate hybrid |author=Bernsteil, I. S. |journal=Science |volume=154 |issue=3756 |pages=1559β1560 |doi=10.1126/science.154.3756.1559 |pmid=4958933|bibcode = 1966Sci...154.1559B|s2cid=85898043 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Sugawara, K. |title=Sociological study of a wild group of hybrid baboons between ''Papio anubis'' and ''P. hamadryas'' in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia |date=January 1979 |journal=Primates |volume=20 |issue=1 |doi=10.1007/BF02373827 |pages=21β56|s2cid=23061688 }}</ref> Hybridization occurs where two species' range overlap to form [[hybrid zone]]s; hybrids may be created by humans when animals are placed in zoos or due to environmental pressures such as predation.<ref name="natoccur" /> Intergeneric hybridizations, hybrids of different genera, have also been found in the wild. Although they belong to genera that have been distinct for several million years, interbreeding still occurs between the [[gelada]] and the [[hamadryas baboon]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jolly |title=Intergeneric Hybrid Baboons |journal=International Journal of Primatology |year=1997 |volume=18 |issue=4 |doi=10.1023/A:1026367307470 |pages=597β627 |first1=C. J. |display-authors=2|last2=Woolley-Barker|first2=Tamsin |last3=Beyene |first3=Shimelis |last4=Disotell |first4=Todd R. |last5=Phillips-Conroy |first5=Jane E.|s2cid=27900830 }}</ref>
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