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Posted: 19 October 2014 at 6:42am | IP Logged | 1  

Found this amusing article on Lord Greystoke's adopted family:

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Very interesting.
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Great..but I still want to know just WHAT type of ape was George of the Jungle's friend, 'an Ape named Ape'?
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I found this very interesting. I always considered Tarzans foster parent to be a gorilla-like primate. Now, I'm not sure if the potential for a 'sub-human', Yeti like creature would add enough mystery to replace the WOW factor of a child raised by animals---actually, now that I've typed that, no, it doesn't!

It does make me think that maybe, -my- Tarzan is not the Tarzan that Burroughs wrote! A re-read is in order.

Thanks for sharing this eye-opener.

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A re-read is in order.

Here ya go:

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And for those who don't remember, Bolgani was the African gorilla. He was the first jungle denizen to die by Tarzan's hunting knife.

And looking at Neal Adams' art above, Terkoz, who was of Tarzan's ape tribe, is drawn as a member of the fictional "anthropoid apes" depicted in the novel. (The name of the character was shortened to "Terk," changed from adversary to friend, and voiced by Rosie O'Donnell in the Disney animated film.)

Rick Baker also created a fictional ape for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes back in 1984.


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Neal drew a big chimp, and Baker used chimps as juveniles for his apes (see upper left), which fit with the thinking of the time, as Chimpanzees were being found to be more and more intelligent, and Tarzan's family was being "recast" -- despite what Burroughs said!
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Does anyone know if Tarzan was ever portrayed with a beard, or a reason for not having one?
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---or a reason for not having one?

Didn't he use his fathers knife to keep shaven?

Interesting though, on one hand you'd think the more hair you sported, the better you could fit in with the apes?

 [edited to add, that before I typed my reply, I actually half expected the Q.I. Klaxxon to go off---I need to watch less of that show!]


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A personification, was Tarzan of the Apes, of the primitive man, the hunter, the warrior.

With the noble poise of his handsome head upon those broad shoulders, and the fire of life and intelligence in those fine, clear eyes, he might readily have typified some demigod of a wild and warlike bygone people of his ancient forest.

But of these things Tarzan did not think. He was worried because he had not clothing to indicate to all the jungle folks that he was a man and not an ape, and grave doubt often entered his mind as to whether he might not yet become an ape.

Was not hair commencing to grow upon his face? All the apes had hair upon theirs but the black men were entirely hairless, with very few exceptions.

True, he had seen pictures in his books of men with great masses of hair upon lip and cheek and chin, but, nevertheless, Tarzan was afraid. Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood.

And so he learned to shave--rudely and painfully, it is true--but, nevertheless, effectively.
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Chapter 13, TARZAN OF THE APES


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