#Tarzan sabor movie#

Tarzan then calls out the famous ape man cry, as he lifts up the leopard's dead body. This occurs during a running fight between the two that culminates when Sabor leaps down on Tarzan, plunging them both into a pit and incidentally impaling himself on the head of Tarzan's shattered spear, which the ape man raises against him. The specific 'Sabor' appearing in the film is the leopard that kills Tarzan's parents and Kala and Kerchak's child and is later killed by him in turn. The second was more aesthetic 'Sabor', they felt, is simply a more evocative and interesting word than 'Sheeta'. The first was for factual accuracy lions are in fact creatures of the veldt, not the jungle as portrayed in Burroughs's tales.

The alteration appears to have been made for two reasons.

#Tarzan sabor movie#

In the Walt Disney produced animated movie ' Tarzan', the meaning of the word was changed yet again, to 'leopard', despite the prior existence of a different and quite serviceable 'Mangani' term for leopard ('Sheeta'). An ' ex post facto' explanation rationalizing the distinction has been found in the fact that male lions are maned and female lions are not, providing a marked visual distinction between the two. Lions thus attained the distinction of being the only creatures with separate terms in 'Mangani' for the male and female. He substituted 'lioness' rather than 'lion' because there was an existing 'Mangani' term for lions in the story, 'Numa'. Burroughs subsequently altered the meaning to 'lioness' for book publication after being informed that there are no tigers in Africa. In the initial magazine publication of the original Tarzan novel ' Tarzan of the Apes', 'Sabor' meant 'tiger'. In the Walt Disney animated movie ' Tarzan', 'Sabor' is a term for leopards, more specifically the leopard that kills Tarzan's parents. In Burroughs' works innumerable lionesses appear under the name of 'Sabor'. 'Sabor' is a generic name for lionesses (originally tigers) in ' Mangani', the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.