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Live action tarzan3/17/2024 ![]() 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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