Terry Wessner produced a sketchbook themed around the notion of a furry Tarzan. He's a big fan of the Edgar Rice Burroughs stories, even those which go off the deep end of plausibility and asked that I come up with my own interpretation of the concept, and one of the things I latched onto was his comment about how Tarzan was a European fish-out-of-water character in the wilds of Africa, and that a proper furry Tarzan would be similarly out of place for an African jungle environment. So I started thinking about what sort of animals are particularly unique or iconic from the British Isles and I just came up with nothing. The best I could figure is that during their colonial height all animals that might have been unique to Britain were exported and naturalized to other regions and anything left was so niche oriented that nobody outside of the United Kingdom would know about them. "Do you have a copy of Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds? The, ahm, expurgated edition?"

So instead of the son of a British nobleman we got ourselves the Great Beast of the West, Tarzan the Apedillo!