No.Tarzan and Jane predate Anthropologist Jane Goodall. Jane Porter first appeared in the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912.) Anthropologist Jane Goodall was born in 1934.
When I was 10 years old, I always saved up my little bits of pocket money, and I would spend time in the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book about this size, and I just had enough money to buy it. And it was called Tarzan of the Apes. I decided, I know what I want to do when I grow up.
Dr. Goodall's story began when she was just a kid. Inspired by the books she read, and driven by her curiosity and determination, Jane was able to achieve her dream of studying animals in Africa. Jane believes that positive change begins with kids.
Pretty sure this tale has you wondering about Jane. But sadly for fans of Tarzan's lady friend who first appeared in Tarzan of the Apes — A Romance of the Jungle in 1912 in All-Story, she does appear to be a pure figment of Burroughs' imagination.
Dr. Jane Goodall Thinks Tarzan Married The Wrong Jane
Did Tarzan and Jane have a baby?
In The Return of Tarzan, Tarzan and Jane marry. In later books, he lives with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack, who takes the ape name Korak (the Killer).
Tarzan Triumphs could have been subtitled “Me Tarzan, Where Jane?” for with the series moving from MGM Studios to RKO Pictures they lost Maureen O'Sullivan as she was an MGM contract player. Jane would be explained away as, “Visiting her sick mother in London” and wouldn't show up for a couple pictures.
Call Jane is based on the true story of a network of activists who helped provide underground abortions in 1960 and 70s Chicago. These activists called themselves “Jane,” or “the Jane collective.” People seeking abortions were told to “call Jane.” That said, the characters in Call Jane are not based on specific people.
A real-life "Tarzan" who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for four decades has died of liver cancer at the age of 52, The Times reported. Ho Van Lang returned to civilization in 2013 after he spent his entire life in the dense Vietnamese jungle with his father, Ho Van Than.
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project.
Since Lord Mildin stranded in 1868 and the first Tarzan book (by Edgar Rice Burroughs) was published in 1912, some people theorized that the story of Tarzan was actually based on Lord Mildin. Another one of these real life Tarzans is a Vietnamese man named Ho van Lang.
When speaking with Science Friday's Ira Flatow more than a decade ago, Goodall details her love of Tarzan when she was around 10 — and how envious she was of Jane. After reading The Story of Dr. Dolittle, she wanted to move to Africa to live with animals and write books about them.
Throughout the entirety of the movie, Jane's exact age is never revealed. However, in the original novel Tarzan of the Apes, she was said to be 19 years old when she met Tarzan.
Flash-forward a decade and a half: We see Jane in spinsterly middle-age reading Pride and Prejudice aloud to Tom's daughter. Becoming Jane is based on a chapter in Jon Spence's 2003 critical biography, Becoming Jane Austen.
Despite the fact that she's just a fictional character on CW's rom-com “Jane the Virgin,” Jane Gloriana Villanueva is a published author on the show and in real life. Her debut historical romance, “Snow Falling,” was unveiled in the Nov. 10 episode of “Jane the Virgin” and then hit actual bookstores across America.
The character's background included his birth in Africa, becoming an orphan, and then raised by apes. His real name was given to him as John Clayton, but since he was brought up by an ape family, they named him Tarzan, which meant “white skin.”
It comes from the mind of turn-of-the-20th-century, American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs in his work of the same name. Tarzan is a name given to the shipwrecked baby by the apes and is meant to be a word from their language that means “white skin.” However, this name could really mean anything you want it to!
Sabor is finally killed as she is impaled on the head of Tarzan's spear tip when the ape man raises it against the ferocious leopard, thus killing the animal.
According to a Cast Member who played the iconic Jack Sparrow in Disneyland Park, one character was cut from the lineup of walk-around characters due to multiple accounts of sexual harassment. The male character they had pulled was Tarzan. He moved around the tree house dressed in just a butt flap.
While Burroughs never said exactly where Tarzan was set, Cameroon's sandy beaches, imposing jungle and ape sanctuaries seem like a good bet – so much so that the West African country was chosen as the setting for the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
A delicate beauty whose poise and charm captivated audiences throughout the 1930s and '40s, Maureen O'Sullivan was best known for her role as Jane Parker in the popular Tarzan series.
