Tantor

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' 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. The last completely certain appearance of this elephant is in The Son of Tarzan, where at the climax of the book he desists from a rampage upon recognizing his former companion after the latter had been absent many years.

In the Walt Disney produced animated movie, Tarzan Tantor is the personal name of this original elephant companion of Tarzan's rather than a term designating all elephants.