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Sabor is a minor antagonist from Disney's 1999 animated film Tarzan. A savage and stealthy leopard, she is the only animal in the film who doesn't speak (though his vocalizations were provided by Frank Welker).

Arguably, Sabor cannot be considered a true "villain" as she is a wild animal trying to survive in the jungle. In the film's prologue, Sabor was responsible for killing Tarzan's human parents and orphaning him, leading to Kala raising him among the gorillas.

Midway through the film (at which point Tarzan has reached adulthood), Sabor attacks Kerchak and the gorilla troop. The vicious leopard closes in to kill Kerchak, but Tarzan comes to his rescue, swinging in on a vine and kicking the ferocious cat back. During the fight, Sabor scratches Tarzan's chest almost into his heart and also slashes off the tip of Tarzan's spear. The spear tip falls onto a flimsy covering of a pit and Tarzan heads after it and eventually grabs it. Sabor leaps down on the ape man and they plunge into the pit, and the leopard is incidentally impaled on the head of Tarzan's shattered spear as the ape man raises it against the leopard, finally killing Sabor. Tarzan then calls out the famous ape man cry, as he lifts up Sabor's corpse.

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