The Jungle Book characters

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Rudyard Kipling's story collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book contain a colourful array of both human and talking animal characters. The most important of these are:

[edit] Mowgli's adventures

• Mowgli (feral child)
• Jungle characters
  • Akela (wolf), "alone" in Hindi
  • Raksha (wolf), "protection" in Hindi;
  • Father Wolf (wolf)
  • Baloo (bear); bhaalu is "bear" in Hindi
  • Bagheera (black panther); from vyaaghra in Sanskrit or Hindi meaning "tiger"
  • Ko (Crow)
  • Kaa (python)
  • Hathi (elephant); meaning "elephant" in Hindi
  • Tabaqui (jackal)
  • Mang (bat)
  • Shere Khan (tiger); sher is "tiger" in Hindi
  • The Bandar-log (monkeys); bandar log means "monkey folk" in Hindi
  • Rama (water buffalo)
  • Chil (in earlier editions called Rann) (kite); "cheel" means kite in Hindi
  • Ikki (in earlier editions called Sahi) (porcupine)
  • Tha (Elephant) The first of the elephants
  • Thuu (Cobra) A blind albino Cobra
  • Grey Brother (wolf)
  • Fao (wolf)
  • Phaona (wolf)
  • The Dholes (wild dog)
  • Oo (Turtle)
  • Jacala (Crocodile)
  • Mysa (water buffalo)
  • Won-Tolla (wolf) An outlier who warns Mowgli's tribe of the Dhole
  • Chikai (Rat)
  • Phano (Wolf) Son of Phaona, leader of The Free People
  • Ferao (Woodpecker)

• Human characters
  • Messua
  • Messua's husband
  • Nathoo (Messua's lost child)
  • Buldeo (village hunter)

[edit] Other stories

• Rikki Tikki Tavi
  • Rikki Tikki Tavi (mongoose)
  • Nag and Nagaina (cobras)
  • Darzee (tailorbird ) "darzee" means tailor in Hindi

[edit] Disney adaption

• Junior the baby Elephant
• Winifred the Elephant (Hathi's mate)
• King Louie the orangutan
• Shanti the human girl
• Flaps, Buzzie, Dizzy, and Ziggy the Vultures

It should be noted that a lot of the characters mentioned in the first section are also characters in the film. They are:

• Mowgli
• Bagheera
• Father Wolf
• Rakshah
• Akela
• Kaa
• Hathi
• Baloo
• The Bandar Log
• Shere Khan