Sabor

Sabor is Clayton's second-in-command of the Deep Jungle conquest, a savage leopard, and a member of the Villain League in Tarzan. She is the one who killed Tarzan's parents and Kerchak and Kala's baby.

Background of NameEdit
In the original Tarzan story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the meaning of the word "sabor" meant "lioness". This was changed to "leopard", despite the prior existence of a different and quite serviceable Mangani term for leopard (Sheeta). The alteration appears to have been made for two reasons. The first was for factual accuracy; lions are in fact creatures of the veldt, not the jungle as portrayed in Burroughs's tales; in African jungles, the dominant (and only) large predator is indeed the leopard. The second was more aesthetic; Sabor, they felt, is simply a more evocative and interesting word than Sheeta; and in brazilian portuguese, "sabor" means "flavor".

TarzanEdit
In the opening song, "Two Worlds", Sabor kills Tarzan's parents and Kala and Kerchak's child, although off-screen. Kala heres a baby's cry and rushes to Tarzan's old treehouse, to find it in a mess and his parents' bodies lifeless. She finds the baby and cuddles it, when Sabor leaps from a beam and attacks. Kala escapes with Tarzan as Sabor is caught in some rope.

Sabor later appears in about the middle of the film, where she attacks the gorillas. Kerchak briefly fights her, but loses. Before Sabor could kill him, Tarzan comes in swinging on a vine, kicking the leopard. During the fight, Sabor knocks the tip off of Tarzan's spear. She gets it on a flimsy covering of a pit. Sabor leaps down on him and they plunge into the pit, and is incidentally impaled on the head of Tarzan's shattered spear as the ape man raises it against the leopard. Tarzan then calls out the famous ape man cry, as he lifts up Sabor's dead body. ===The Legend of TarzanEdit=== Sheeta, the discarded original Burroughs designation, was later used in The Legend of Tarzan show as the name for one of two black panthers that attack together (the name of the other was Noru). Black panthers are actually a color variety of leopards and they do exist in African jungles, although they seem to be rare.

In a few episodes, Sabor has been mentioned.

Role in the series
Sabor is a member of the Villain League alongside Clayton.