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Sabor is a generic name for lionesses in Mangani, the fictional language of the great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In the Walt Disney produced animated movie, Tarzan it is a term for leopards, and more specifically the leopard that kills Tarzan's parents and is later killed by him in turn.

In the initial magazine publication of the original Tarzan novel Tarzan of the Apes, Sabor meant "tiger". Burroughs altered the meaning to "lioness" for book publication after being informed that there are no tigers in Africa. He substituted "lioness" rather than "lion" because there was an existing Mangani term for lions in the story, Numa. Lions thus attained the distinction of being the only creatures with separate terms in Mangani for the male and female. An ex post facto explanation rationalizing the distinction has been found in the fact that male lions are maned and female lions are not, providing a marked visual distinction between the two.

In the movie, the meaning of the word is changed yet again, to "leopard", despite the prior existence of a different and quite servicable term for leopard in Mangani (Sheeta). The alteration was 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' tales. The second was more aesthetic; Sabor is simply a more evocative and interesting word than Sheeta.

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