![]() ![]() Akut ("Light-hole") (m.), later solitary – The Beasts of Tarzan The Son of Tarzan.Sancho (m.), mangani name unknown – Tarzan and the Madman.Mal-gash ("Yellow-Tooth") (m.), king – Tarzan and the Madman.Fernando (m.), mangani name unknown – Tarzan and the Madman.Tribe of Mal-gash (also called the tribe of Ho-den and the Servants of God) Tublat ("Broken-nose") (m.) – Tarzan of the Apes Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Thaka ("?") (f.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Terkoz ("?") (m.), king between Tarzan's stints as king – Tarzan of the Apes.Teeka ("?") (f.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Taug ("Tall-bottom") (m.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Tana ("Warrior-light") (f.) – Tarzan of the Apes.Taglat ("Neck-nose") (m.) – Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.Pagth ("?") (m.), king after Karnath – Tarzan and the Golden Lion.Numgo ("?-black") (m.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Neeta ("Duck-little") (f.) – Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan and the Golden Lion.Mungo ("?-black") (m.) – Tarzan of the Apes.Mumga ("?-red") (f.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Mamka ("?") (f.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Kerchak ("?") (m.), king – Tarzan of the Apes Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Karnath ("?") (m.), king after Tarzan – The Return of Tarzan.Kama ("?-child") (f.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Kala ("Milk-light") (f.) – Tarzan of the Apes Jungle Tales of Tarzan. ![]() Gunto ("?-purple") (m.) – Tarzan of the Apes Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Gozan ("Black-skin") (m.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Go-yad ("Black-ear") (m.), later of the tribe of Toyat – Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle Tarzan and the Lost Empire.Gobu ("Black-male") (m.) – Tarzan and the Golden Lion.Gazan ("Red-skin") (m.) – Jungle Tales of Tarzan.Chulk ("?") (m.) – Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.Tribe of Kerchak (later of Tarzan, Terkoz, Karnath, Pagth) Zu-tag ("Big-neck") (m.) – Tarzan the Untamed.Go-lat ("Black-eye") (m.), king – Tarzan the Untamed.Individuals associated with more than one tribe may be listed more than once. Tarzan continued to associate occasionally with his original tribe until cast out in Tarzan and the Golden Lion, as the result of a Tarzan impersonator having murdered one of its members.Īltogether, Mangani appear in 15 of the Tarzan books the first through seventh ( Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed), the ninth ( Tarzan and the Golden Lion), the 11th and 12th ( Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, Tarzan and the Lost Empire), the 14th ( Tarzan the Invincible), the 18th ( Tarzan and the Leopard Men), the 20th ( Tarzan and the Forbidden City), the 23rd ( Tarzan and the Madman), and the 26th ( Tarzan: The Lost Adventure).Ī list of tribal groups of Mangani and individual named Mangani associated with them as portrayed in the Tarzan novels follows, together with the titles of the books in which they appear or are referenced. As an adult he comes to lead this tribe later, he becomes accepted in other tribes of Mangani, such as the tribe of Molak in The Beasts of Tarzan. Tarzan is raised in the tribe of Kerchak, based in the coastal jungle of equatorial Africa, as shown in Tarzan of the Apes and Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Burroughs portrays the Mangani (and indeed most jungle animals) as susceptible to occasional bouts of madness in which they will lash out violently and unpredictably at other living creatures in their vicinity. Tribes are generally identified by the names of their kings. It has also been suggested that the Mangani be retroactively identified with the recently discovered Bili ape, a type of giant chimpanzee sharing some of the traits of the fictional species, including size and habitat.Īs described by Burroughs, Mangani are organized in tribal bands ruled by dominant males, or "kings", which subsist by foraging for fruit, grubs, insects, and sometimes meat, in localized territories. ![]() Walt Disney Pictures' 1999 animated feature film Tarzan, its sequels, and the television series The Legend of Tarzan based on it, portray the apes who raised Tarzan as gorillas, though in the books gorillas, called Bolgani by the Mangani, are explicitly stated to be a separate species. Science fiction author Philip José Farmer speculated they might be a variety of Australopithecus in his pseudo-biography of Tarzan, Tarzan Alive. There have been a number of attempts to identify the fictional Mangani with an actual primate species. He also described them as “man-like apes which the natives of the Gobi speak of in whispers but which no white man ever had seen ” ( Jungle Tales of Tarzan: "The Battle for Teeka") implying a connection to the Almas or Yeti. The Mangani are described by Burroughs as approximately man-sized, and appear to be a species intermediate between chimpanzees and gorillas. ![]()
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