Gallery For more game related media, see Tantor/Gallery. Tantor continues to be Tarzan and Terk's friend well into young adulthood. Tantor is first seen as a toddler, accompanying his mother at an elephant watering hole. The two mourn the loss of their friend, though Terk tries to hide her sadness with anger. Terk's loyal pachyderm pal. When a young Tarzan runs away from the gorilla family to try and find his own place in the jungle, a young Tantor and Terk go out to find him and bring him back home.
Suddenly, something enters the water, and Tantor assumes it to be a piranha. Thank you very much." By the time of the series/Tarzan and Jane, Jane and Professor Porter had since learned how to communicate with the animals. He warns his mother and her friends, but the "piranha" attacks and causes a stampede. In Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.To help Tarzan rescue the gorillas from Clayton (succeeded).Tarzan, Terk, Kala, Kerchak, Jane Porter, Archimedes Q. Porter, Zugor, Other gorillasSabor, Clayton, Clayton's men, Tublat, Zutho, Nuru and SheetaTake your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. A man raised by gorillas must decide where … Tantor is the Mangani word for elephant, thus all elephants are referred to as such. ―Tantor to Terk.. Tantor is a major character in Disney's 1999 animated feature film, Tarzan. Tantor is a generic name for elephants in Mangani, the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.In Burroughs's works a number of elephants appear under the name of Tantor, most notably one particular bull elephant the ape man befriends in his youth in the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes Tantor sees past this and tries to comfort her, though to no avail. Tantor and Terk rush to the beach to bid farewell but are too late. Despite this, as seen during his introduction and throughout episodes of the television series, he is very knowledgeable of scientific terms and various phobias, being that he suffers from a large amount of them suggesting that he is in fact highly intelligent. He assumed Tarzan was a sub-species of an elephant, solely due to the fact that they both enjoyed peanuts.
In the end Tantor celebrates the marriage of Tarzan and Jane along with Tarzan's gorilla family. Later when Tarzan joins the humans and is put in a cell by a traitorous Clayton and his men, Tantor comes to the rescue and takes Terk with him being brave for the first time and fights off the men on the ship and they help fight Clayton's men so they would nkt make off with the gorillas. He is riddled with various phobias, such as a fear of germs and the unknown.
"Sometimes, you embarrass me. " For example, he boarded Clayton's ship to rescue Tarzan (complete with trumpet "Charge!" However, he cared deeply for his friends and at times, he displayed considerable bravery despite normally appearing to be quite cowardly. Description. Tantor himself played a major part in several episodes. This causes him to go about his days with much caution and hesitation, and can occasionally cause him to fall into fits of panic before cowering in fear. He initially refuses to go back, but when he rescues the two of them from Uto, Kago and Mama Gunda, they become friends again and with Kala's arrival onto the scene, they all return home. It turns out, the creature was a human child named At adulthood, Tantor has apparently left his herd of elephants to reside with Tarzan and Terk's gorilla family. Tantor usually appeared to be timid and even a downright coward who was easily spooked. However, he cared deeply for his friends and at times, he displayed considerable bravery despite normally appearing to be quite cowardly. ―Terk, referring to herself.
There, he is reluctant to enter the water out of fears of bacteria, but his mother assures the water is fine. Terk doesn't seem to care, angering Tantor, who finds courage and forces Terk to accompany him on a rescue mission.