Tarzan

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=**__Tarzan__**=

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a man with great physical strength, agility, and virility.He is a wild, almost animal-like man who has been raised by gorillas since birth. He speaks little English and mostly gorilla language which is a combination of grunts and hoots.Tarzan is a friendly character, especially when is among his "family", the gorillas. He cares deeply about his friends. It also seems Tarzan can feel it when people want to harm his friends, because he didn't trust Clayton when he said he didn't want to harm the gorillas. Tarzan is almost always the first to save people when they're in danger: He saved Sora from Sabor, and later, along with Sora, Donald and Goofy, he saved Terk and Jane. Tarzan is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who is better known as a heroic adventurer of the wild. Friends with the most wild and dangerous animals inhabiting the African Jungle, Tarzan has been a rather unseemly hero. However, the popularity of Tarzan evidences the fact that he can certainly be counted amongst some of the most loved fictional characters of all times. Interestingly, it is the only character to have made appearance in all forms of media. Radio shows, movies, novels, comics, and small screen; he has made his presence felt everywhere.The story of Tarzan is a very captivating one. A shipwreck leaves an infant orphaned on the West African shore. The helpless baby is taken under the protection of a gorilla tribe and becomes part of their family. He eventually encounters his first human--Jane Porter, a curious young explorer. The moment changes both their lives forever.

powers and abilities Tarzan's jungle upbringing gives him abilities far beyond those of ordinary humans. These include climbing, clinging, and leaping as well as any great ape, or better. He uses branches and hanging vines to swing at great speed, a skill acquired among the anthropoid apes. His strength, speed, agility, reflexes, senses, flexibility, and swimming are extraordinary in comparison to normal men. He has wrestled full grown bull apes and gorillas, lions, rhinos, crocodiles, pythons, sharks, tigers, man-size seahorses (once) and even dinosaurs (when he visited). He learns a new language in days, ultimately speaking many languages, including that of the great apes, french, english, dutch, german, sawhili, many Bantue dialects, ancient Greek, ancient Latin, Mayan, the languages of the Ant Men and of pullucidar. He also communicates with many species of jungle animals.

travel to find adventure As a young adult, Tarzan meets a young American woman, [|Jane Porter], who along with her father and others of their party is marooned at exactly the same spot on the African coast where Tarzan's parents were twenty years earlier. When she returns to America, he leaves the jungle in search of her, his one true love. In later books, Tarzan and Jane marry and he lives with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack, who takes the ape name [|Korak] ("the Killer"). Tarzan is contemptuous of the hypocrisy of civilization, and he and Jane return to Africa, making their home on an extensive estate that becomes a base for Tarzan's later adventures.



=**__shane__**=



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