Talk to the Animals

I sometimes wonder if ERB got the idea of Tarzan from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books.

Tarzan was raised by talking apes; Mowgli was raised by talking wolves. Each ultimately had to return to his own kind.

Kipling was a far better writer than ERB, but ERB was fun, and Kipling was not only not-fun, he was deadly serious, even though The Jungle Books is much more for kids than adults.

By the way, the animated version is fun, although not exactly true to the source material.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who can dance like Baloo!