In the invented language, Mangani (meaning "great-ape") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan.
Probably the biggest misconception of them all: the “great apes” who raised Tarzan, although almost always depicted as plain old gorillas, were in fact a distinct fictional species that referred to themselves as the Mangani and to their larger enemies/cousins, the gorillas, as the Bolgani.
When he is one year old his mother dies, and soon thereafter his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak. The infant is then adopted by the she-ape Kala. Clayton is named "Tarzan" ("White Skin" in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage.
Disney's magnificent animated adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's story of the ape man begins deep within the jungle when baby Tarzan is adopted by a family of gorillas. Even though he is shunned as a "hairless wonder" by their leader, Tarzan is accepted by the gorillas and raised as one of their own.
In the Walt Disney produced animated movie Tarzan (1999), Tantor is the personal name of this original elephant companion of Tarzan's rather than a term designating all elephants. In this version, Tantor is a sweet-natured yet highly phobic elephant afraid of many things, such as germs and frightening sounds.
Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, first published 100 years ago as Tarzan of the Apes, tells the story of John Clayton, a child born to a pair of shipwrecked aristocrats and raised by apes in the coastal jungles of equatorial Africa, eventually living out his days as the king of the jungle.
"William Mildin, 14th Earl of Streatham, was the real-life inspiration for Tarzan of the Apes. In 1868 he was shipwrecked off West Africa at the age of 11, and spent 15 years living in the jungle, after which he lived in Thrale Road (not much difference there, then)."
Cheeta (sometimes billed as Cheetah, Cheta, and Chita) is a chimpanzee character that appeared in numerous Hollywood Tarzan films of the 1930s–1960s, as well as the 1966–1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the title character, Tarzan.
In this scene, Tarzan has been an adult. He had some conversation with Kala as his mother. Tarzan played with Terk, a gorrilla, and Tantor, an elephant, as his best friends. Until this scene, he did not realize that he was a human, not a kind of animal.
As anyone who has read the first book in the series, “Tarzan of the Apes”, can tell you, he taught himself to shave so he might not become an ape figuratively.
Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion is a fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly comics.
Tarzan finds and adopts an orphaned lion cub and trains him as a feline military animal. Tarzan goes off to get some gold from the lost Atlantean enclave in Africa.
Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.
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.
Sabor is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Clayton) of Tarzan. She is the generic Mangani word for a female lion, sometimes also used for other large cats without a mane. In the original 1912 serialized printing of Tarzan of the Apes, Burroughs used “sabor” as the word for tigers.
Due to Tarzan living his whole life in the jungle he has learned to speak various animal languages including gorilla, hummingbird, rhino and according to Tarzan he can even speak eagle despite it being rusty.
The name of the Jaguar in the Tarzan stories and films is Sabor. The only jaguars in any Tarzan that I am aware of are: A couple of unnamed jaguars that appear in chapter one of movie serial The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) - set in Guatemala.
The yell can best be described as a "Mmmmm-ann-gann-niii" sound that gradually rises ever higher in pitch. Elmo Lincoln recreated his victory cry in a 1952 episode of You Asked for It. Tarzan's yell is used as a melodic refrain in the Baltimora single Tarzan Boy.
Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, and in movies and other media based on it. She is the ape mother of Tarzan who raises him.
