Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the Congo Basin by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.
Tarzan, one of the best-known and most durable figures of popular fiction, the hero of jungle adventures in nearly 30 novels and dozens of motion pictures. Tarzan, the creation of the American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in a magazine story in 1912.
Tarzan is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1999 animated feature film of the same name. Tarzan was raised by a colony of gorillas after his parents were killed by the bloodthirsty leopardess Sabor. Tarzan would grow to become the valiant protector of the natural world, all the while remaining...
With his wisecracking ape buddy Terk and neurotic elephant pal Tantor, Tarzan learns to survive in the animal kingdom. His "Two Worlds" collide with the arrival of humans, forcing Tarzan to choose between a "civilized" life with the beautiful Jane and the life he knows and loves with his gorilla family.