Tarzan yell Tarzan yell The Tarzan yell or Tarzan's jungle call is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs starting with "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932). The yell was a creation of the movies based on what Burroughs described in his books as simply "the victory cry of the bull ape." Although the RKO Picture version of the Tarzan yell was putatively that of Weissmuller, different stories exist as to how the Tarzan yell was created. Many speculate that a man named Lloyd
Tarzan yell lion's role that looked a lot like the gorilla from "Dumbo", and the 1971 Disney live action/animated feature "Bedknobs and Broomsticks". Elmo Lincoln recreated his victory cry in a 1952 episode of "You Asked for It". Donkey Kong has also been known to use the Tarzan yell (although it sounds like "Ooo-wa-ooo-aaooaaooaa-ooo!"). His Tarzan yell is first heard in "" and later was used in "DK Jungle Climber", "Donkey Kong Country Returns" and later in "". Tarzan's yell is used as a melodic refrain in the Baltimora single "Tarzan Boy". This refrain plays in place of an ordinary Tarzan yell