Film: Tarzan Jane's father in Tarzan is able to predict the future. When the gang arrive on the island and discover Tarzan, the man who fights and acts like an animal, they exclaim that everyone in the Western world will want to meet him. Including Darwin, Kipling and Queen Victoria. However, Darwin died in 1882 and at that time Kipling was only seventeen years old. He hadn't even thought about the concept of the Jungle Book at this point as he was too busy writing newspaper articles. It would be another ten years until he would write and publish his book about Mowgli and friends.