They both die when Tarzan was infantile, causes of their deaths varies by version. When Tarzan was one year old, his mother died of natural causes, and his father was killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe into which Tarzan was adopted. 8. While she was still a young leopard she slaughtered both of Tarzan's parents, and fought Kala over the infant Tarzan, although Kala managed to escape with the baby. Kala swaps her child for Tarzan. Kerchak wants the mysterious weapon John Greystroke (Tarzan’s father) has, so he goes into the cabin and kills him for it. Kerchak is a villainous Mangani from the original Tarzan books, a vicious silverback who was responsible for the deaths of Tarzan's original family - his role was replaced in the 1999 Disney cartoon film by Sabor, a rogue leopard.. Biography Edit They were both either born in the late 1850s or early 1860s In either late 1888 or early 1889, Lord Greystoke and his very pregnant wife were marooned on the Atlantic coast of Africa by mutineers. 0 0 0. Tarzan's parents cast ashore in an unknown area of Africa with Tarzan after their ship is burned down. Source(s): I've watched tarzan A billion times. He is the main antagonist of Tarzan of the Apes.. History. The Legend of Tarzan Tarzan's parents are his biological parents.

They died by the same tiger that tried to kill tarzan when the gorrilla came and saved him. Although it is unseen on screen, they are killed by Sabor, as seen when Kala rescues Tarzan from Sabor after seeing their bodies. 7. Kala takes Tarzan from his crib and puts her dead child into it, then runs away to make sure Kerchak doesn’t kill him too. Kerchak kills Tarzan’s father. The California man who stabbed his mother to death and then tried to blame his actor father was a former quarterback on the Harvard University football team who graduated with a … Kerchak disdains and shuns Tarzan during his childhood, but begins to accept him in adulthood after Tarzan kills Sabor (responsible in the film for killing both Tarzan's parents and Kerchak and Kala's son) and saves the group from the hunter Clayton. Eventually, they were avenged by Tarzan as an adult, who would grow up to kill Sabor.