So I'm out questing on my new Boomkin out in Stonetalon Mountains and I see a bunch of these guys. The Krom'gar Mauraders come in Tauren, Orc, and Troll, but strangely all the troll are male forest trolls. Now in current standing horde politics Undead do what they want, Tauren are somewhat distancing themselves from the orcs, blood elves... are finding magical artifacts(?), and Trolls are on the in a bit of a conflict with Warchief Hellscream. This rift, however, only seems to apply to the Darkspear trolls, who are the largest, but not the only tribe currently allied with the horde.
There three know troll tribes affiliated with the New Horde. The Darkspear, under Vol'Jin who are the primary tribe within the hordes forces and the one player characters are a part of. The Recent conflict between Garrosh and Vol'jin has somewhat lessoned their power in the horde. Then there are the Shatterspear, from Mountians of Darkshore, who recently at behest of the new warchief launched an assault on the Night Elves below, and have been all but wiped out in the process. Both of these are Jungle Troll tribes, however the image above is not by any means a Jungle Troll.
With this said that leaves only one other tribe, the Raventusk of the Hinterlands. The only Amani tribe allied with the horde. Like the Darkspear they are a very small tribe considered weak by other trolls, thus had little love for the other amani tribes. With the Wildhammer of Aerie Peak within spitting distance of their village allying with the horde was very much ideal. However it is unlikely that they would have the numbers to send troops all the way to Stonetalon without leaving themselves open to attack by the dwarves.
Which means this is probably a bug. A slight oversight by devs since these mobs are likely killable by alliance players questing in the zone. Interstingly these are the only Forest Trolls on kalimdor. With the nothernly location of the Shatterspear, it is also possible that them being jungle trolls was also an over sight. As Amani were in the north (with the Drakkari splinter off from them) while Gurubashi were in the south. Regardless this small change presents a lot of possibilities for story. My knowing that there has been little change in the remain Amani territory, I'll have to quest through the Hinterlands to see if there is any merit to this .

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