# Jungle Tales of Tarzan — Character guide

> Key figures in Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

- [Tarzan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/tarzan.md): Tarzan belongs to Kerchak's ape tribe yet stands apart from it, his smooth skin and white teeth a constant reminder that he is something other than his brothers. Watching Teeka, he feels desire for the first time, and wi
- [Teeka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/teeka.md): Teeka is Tarzan's childhood playmate, the one companion who never grew surly as the other young apes did, and her beauty strikes him like a sudden wound. When she takes a mate and bears a child, she becomes a creature of
- [Taug](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/taug.md): Taug is the tribe's great bull, a creature of instinctive pride who measures his worth in deeds performed before an audience. He remembers his past defeat at Tarzan's hands, yet the urge to protect his offspring and mate
- [Bukawai](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/bukawai.md): Old Bukawai moves through the story as a figure of suspicion and hidden malice, a man whose power rests on superstition and the willingness of others to believe in his magic. His schemes set him against Tarzan and the vi
- [Numa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/numa.md): Numa stalks the same trails Tarzan swings above, a constant threat whose hatred for the ape-man is personal and patient. He glares up at his tormentor with round, burning eyes and low growls, but past experience has taug
- [Momaya](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/momaya.md): Momaya belongs to the village at the jungle's edge, a mother whose world narrows to the safety of her son Tibo. When the boy vanishes into the wild, her grief and determination push her toward the witch doctor Bukawai an
- [Tibo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/tibo.md): A small boy of the village whose path keeps crossing Tarzan's, making him both a pawn and a rare human thread in the ape-man's solitary life.
- [Tantor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/tantor.md): The great bull elephant whose thunderous presence can turn the jungle into either a crushing enemy or a towering, unlikely friend.
- [Sheeta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/sheeta.md): The leopard, a stealthy predator in the jungle.
- [Mbonga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/mbonga.md): The village's proud chief, whose authority and superstitions collide with the unseen ape-man prowling the trees above his people.
- [Toog](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/toog.md): A sullen ape who challenges Tarzan's authority.
- [Witch Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/witch_doctor.md): The tribe's cunning medicine man, whose fear of Tarzan curdles into schemes that make the jungle itself feel like a trap.
- [Rabba Kega](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/rabba_kega.md): A minor ape character in the jungle community.
- [Gazan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/gazan.md): A young ape, child of Teeka and Taug.
- [Goro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/goro.md): The moon, personified in jungle mythology.
- [Gomangani](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/gomangani.md): A term for black humans, used as a collective character.
- [Gunto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/gunto.md): A minor ape character in the tribe.
- [Bolgani](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/bolgani.md): A gorilla, a powerful jungle creature.
- [Mumga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/mumga.md): An old, blind ape who searches for grubworms.
- [Kerchak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jungle_tales_of_tarzan_se/characters/kerchak.md): The former king of the apes, killed by Tarzan.

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