He lives the first few years of his life believing he is an ape before noticing and feeling ashamed for his differences from his ape companions, and living with the ire of his foster father, Tublat. Soon after his parents' death, baby John was adopted by the ape, Kala, who lost her own baby during one of Kerchak's rampages, and named the baby Tarzan, which means "White Skin" in ape language. When Tarzan was an infant, his mother died in her sleep, and his father was killed soon after by Kerchak, chieftain of the Mangani, Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Character biography Childhood years Īccording to Burroughs, Tarzan was born in 1888, as John Clayton III, the son of John Clayton I (Lord Greystoke) and his wife, Alice Clayton, who were marooned on the Atlantic coast of Africa by mutineers.
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