"Small in stature, with face set grimly, he seemed the epitome of deadliness"". His squadron nicknamed him ""Rikki"", after the mongoose ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"", which outstrikes cobras in the story of the same name by Rudyard Kipling. Many who knew him saw a sensitive side, however, Soar noting that in addition to his skill with guns, Little was ""also a collector of wild flowers"", and his wife contending that his appearance in photographs belied his sense of humour. Squadron commander Raymond Collishaw, who would finish the war as the RNAS' top-scoring ace, summed up Little as ""an outstanding character, bold, aggressive and"
"Mowgli Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is a naked feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story ""In the Rukh"" (collected in ""Many Inventions"", 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his collections ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean ""frog"", describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it ""does not"
"the same title in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. In this tale set in India, the young mongoose saves his family from a krait and from Nag and Nagaina, two cobras. The story was later made into several films and a song by Donovan, among other references. A mongoose also features in Bram Stoker's novel ""The Lair of the White Worm"". The main character, Adam Salton, purchases one to independently hunt snakes. Another mongoose features in the denouement of the Sherlock Holmes story ""The Adventure of the Crooked Man"", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Indian Tamil Devotional"
"Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of the Raja of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Bagheera begins to plan for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough, he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes"
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag and Nagaina who are angered by the family's presence on their territory."
"worried about what his child will find around the next corner, the big cat who knows he has to let go just a little but can't find it in himself to do so"". Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of"
"Kldiashvili directed a live action feature film entitled ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" four years later. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag"
"The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or ""man-cub"" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is ""Seonee"" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme is echoed"
"Raksha (The Jungle Book) Raksha ( / ""Rakšā"" or Mother Wolf as initially named) is a fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, collected in ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"". She is a female Indian wolf, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to adopt a human ""cub"" that her mate Father Wolf has found wandering in the jungle, naming him ""Mowgli"" (which means ""frog"" in the Speech of the Jungle) because of his hairlessness. Defying the tiger Shere Khan, who is determined to eat the man-cub, she reveals that"
"take the place of the mongoose, most often a dog. It is also found in other versions as a weasel, cat (in Persia), bear, or lion, and the snake is sometimes replaced with a wolf (in Wales). The essence of the story, however, remains the same. Similarly, variants of the story sometimes have the man, instead of his wife, killing the loyal animal. The story is sometimes placed within a frame story, where a saviour stands mistakenly accused and narrates this story, thereby preventing his own death. The story was first studied in 1859 by Theodor Benfey, the pioneer of"
"mean 'frog' in any language other than the language of the forest."" Kipling stated that the first syllable of ""Mowgli"" should rhyme with ""cow"". The Mowgli stories, including ""In the Rukh"", were first collected in chronological order in one volume as ""The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book"" (1907) (Volume VIII of this series contained the non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in ""All the Mowgli Stories"" (1933). ""In the Rukh"" describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in the Pench area in Seoni at the time of the British Raj, discovers a young man"
"Shere Khan Shere Khan (; ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""Jungle Book"" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word ""Shere"" (or """"shir"""") translates as ""tiger"" and ""Khan"" is a title of distinction, used together ""to show that he is chief among tigers."" Other sources indicate ""Shere"" may mean ""tiger"" or ""lion"" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that ""Khan"" translates as ""king"", or ""leader"", in a number of languages influenced by the Mongols, including Pashto and Urdu. Shere Khan was depicted by Kipling as being born with a crippled"
"a mongoose lives in its natural habitat; however, it is known that the average lifespan in captivity is twenty years. In ancient Mesopotamia, mongooses were sacred to the deity Ningilin, who was conflated with Ningirima, a deity of magic who was invoked for protection against serpents. According to a Babylonian popular saying, when a mouse fled from a mongoose into a serpent's hole, it announced, ""I bring you greetings from the snake-charmer!"" A creature resembling a mongoose also appears in Old Babylonian glyptic art, but its significance is not known. According to Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (1.35 & 1.87), Egyptians"
"Baloo Baloo ( ""Bhālū"", ""bear"") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" from 1894 and ""The Second Jungle Book"" from 1895. Baloo, a sloth bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack. His most challenging pupil is the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. Baloo and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is described in Kipling's work as ""the sleepy brown bear"". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his"
"Akela (The Jungle Book) Akela ( / ""Akelā"" also called The Lone Wolf or Big Wolf) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"". He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves and presides over the pack's council meetings. It is at such a meeting that the pack adopts the lost child Mowgli and Akela becomes one of Mowgli's mentors. ""Akelā"" means ""single or solitary"" in Hindi and Urdu. Kipling also calls him the ""Lone Wolf: Kipling portrays Akela with the character of an English gentleman. This is shown"
"wanted it to be a lullaby, but it has a very mysterious sound."" Kaa Kaa is a fictional character from ""The Jungle Book"" stories written by Rudyard Kipling. Kaa is one of Mowgli's trusted mentors and friends. First introduced in the story ""Kaa's Hunting"" in ""The Jungle Book"", Kaa is a huge and powerful snake, more than 100 years old and still in his prime. In ""Kaa's Hunting"", Bagheera and Baloo enlist Kaa's help to rescue Mowgli when the man-cub is kidnapped by Bandar-log (monkeys) and taken to an abandoned human city called the Cold Lairs. Kaa breaks down the"
"Kaa Kaa is a fictional character from ""The Jungle Book"" stories written by Rudyard Kipling. Kaa is one of Mowgli's trusted mentors and friends. First introduced in the story ""Kaa's Hunting"" in ""The Jungle Book"", Kaa is a huge and powerful snake, more than 100 years old and still in his prime. In ""Kaa's Hunting"", Bagheera and Baloo enlist Kaa's help to rescue Mowgli when the man-cub is kidnapped by Bandar-log (monkeys) and taken to an abandoned human city called the Cold Lairs. Kaa breaks down the wall of the building in which Mowgli is imprisoned in and uses his"
"interpretations. The Brahmin and the Mongoose The Brahmin and the Mongoose (or The Brahmin's Wife and the Mongoose) is a folktale from India, and ""one of the world's most travelled tales"". It describes the rash killing of a loyal animal, and thus warns against hasty action. The story underlies certain legends in the West, such as that of Llywelyn and his dog Gelert in Wales, or that of Saint Guinefort in France. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 178A. The original version from the Panchatantra in Sanskrit goes as follows (translation from ): In Western variants of the story, other"
"The Brahmin and the Mongoose The Brahmin and the Mongoose (or The Brahmin's Wife and the Mongoose) is a folktale from India, and ""one of the world's most travelled tales"". It describes the rash killing of a loyal animal, and thus warns against hasty action. The story underlies certain legends in the West, such as that of Llywelyn and his dog Gelert in Wales, or that of Saint Guinefort in France. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 178A. The original version from the Panchatantra in Sanskrit goes as follows (translation from ): In Western variants of the story, other animals"
"her name is Raksha (""protection/nurture"") because of her ferocity as a fighter, and she will fight to the death for any of her cubs, natural or adopted. Raksha does not play a large role in the Mowgli stories, but occasionally offers her adopted son moral support. Raksha (The Jungle Book) Raksha ( / ""Rakšā"" or Mother Wolf as initially named) is a fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, collected in ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"". She is a female Indian wolf, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to"
"Khan onto a dead strangler fig tree and eventually defeats him by causing him to fall into a pit of fire to his death, ending his tyranny once and for all. Shere Khan Shere Khan (; ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""Jungle Book"" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word ""Shere"" (or """"shir"""") translates as ""tiger"" and ""Khan"" is a title of distinction, used together ""to show that he is chief among tigers."" Other sources indicate ""Shere"" may mean ""tiger"" or ""lion"" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that"
"animation and its 2016 remake, and the 1989 Japanese anime ""Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli"". Stuart Paterson wrote a stage adaptation in 2004, first produced by the Birmingham Old Rep in 2004 and published in 2007 by Nick Hern Books. The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or ""man-cub"" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India;"
"Kaa's Hunting ""Kaa's Hunting"" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of Mowgli's Brothers, and is the second story in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) where it is accompanied by the poem ""Road Song of the Bandar-log"". The seven-year-old ""man-cub"" Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, is being tutored in the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear, but ""runs off in a temper"" when Baloo spanks him for inattention. Bagheera the panther, who disapproves of this corporal punishment, persuades Mowgli to return and recite"
"Ring-tailed mongoose The ring-tailed mongoose (""Galidia elegans"") is a euplerid in the subfamily Galidiinae, a carnivoran native to Madagascar. There is much disagreement about the placement of Madagascar's carnivores, including the ring-tailed mongoose, within the phylogenetic tree. A 2003 study reported evidence that the Malagasy Carnivora evolved from a single herpestid (mongoose) ancestor. A monotypic genus, ""Galidia"" literally means ""little weasel"", being a diminutive form of ""galeē"", ‘weasel’ in ancient Greek. Its local common name is ""vontsira mena"", ‘red ""vontsira""’ in Malagasy. The ring-tailed mongoose is relatively small but is the largest member of the subfamily Galidiinae. It is usually"
"Red Dog (Kipling short story) ""Red Dog"" is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling. Written at Kipling's home in Brattleboro, Vermont between February and March 1895, it was first published as ""Good Hunting: A Story of the Jungle"" in ""The Pall Mall Gazette"" for July 29 and 30 1895 and ""McClure's Magazine"" for August 1895 before appearing under its definitive title as the 7th and penultimate story in ""The Second Jungle Book"" later the same year. It was also the penultimate Mowgli story to be written. Mowgli the feral child is about 16 years old and living contentedly with his"
"Bandar-log Bandar-log () is a term used in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" to describe the monkeys of the Seeonee jungle. In Hindi, ""Bandar"" means ""monkey"" and ""log"" means ""people"" – but can also be used for plurality hence the term simply refers to ""monkeys"". The term has also since come to refer to ""any body of irresponsible chatterers."" The Bandar-log feature most prominently in the story ""Kaa's Hunting"", where their scatterbrained anarchy causes them to be treated as pariahs by the rest of the jungle. Their foolish and chattering ways are illustrated by their slogan: ""We are great. We"
"powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals. The ""Just So Stories"" began as bedtime stories told to his daughter ""Effie"" [Josephine, Kipling's firstborn]; when the first three were published in a children’s magazine, a year before her death, Kipling explained: ""in the evening there were stories meant to put Effie to sleep, and you were not allowed to alter those by one single little word. They had to be told just so; or"
"Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta"", describing it as an ""animal of the bear-kind"" and saying it was properly called the ""Petre Bear"". In Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"", Baloo ""the sleepy old brown bear"" teaches the Law of the Jungle to the wolf cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack, as well as to his most challenging pupil, the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his knowledge of Indian fauna, used the Hindustani word ""bhalu"" for several bear species, though Daniel Karlin, who edited the Penguin Classics reissue of ""The Jungle Book"" in 1989,"
"raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle (explaining the scars on his elbows and knees from going on all fours). Mowgli marries the daughter of Gisborne's butler, Abdul Gafur. By the end of the story, Mowgli has a son and is back to living with his wolf brothers. Kipling then proceeded to write the stories of Mowgli's childhood in detail in ""The Jungle Book"". Lost by his parents as a baby in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, he is adopted by the Wolf Mother (Raksha) and Father Wolf, who call him Mowgli (frog) because of his"
"Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) ""Tiger! Tiger!"" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. A direct sequel to ""Mowgli's Brothers"", it was published in magazines in 1893–94 before appearing as the third story in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), following ""Kaa's Hunting"". The title is derived from William Blake's poem ""The Tyger"". After driving out the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli leaves the wolf pack that has raised him and makes his way to a human village to be with his own (biological) kind. There he is adopted by a bereaved couple, Messua and her husband, due to his resemblance to their"
"Mr. Miao ""Mr. Miao"" (), also translated as ""The Tiger Guest"" and ""Student Miao"", is a short story by Pu Songling first published in ""Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio"" (1740). It revolves around a few Chinese scholars and their encounter with a tiger spirit named Miao. En route to Xi'an for an examination, Minzhou (岷州) scholar Gong (龚) stops for a drink at an inn, where he is approached by a burly but well-mannered stranger who introduces himself as ""Miao"" (苗). Gong buys him a drink, but this does not satisfy Miao; Miao heads to the marketplace and returns"
"native to the Ganges, and hinted the Syriac name might be a corruption of the makara, a composite creature in Hindu mythology. It may also be based on Ctesias's description of the giant fanged Indus worm. The makara theory and Ctesia's influence is also supported by Gunderson. Others proposed a rhinoceros, though conceding it may just be an imaginary creature. Christian Lassen in the 19th century reconstructed the original name of this beast to be *""dantešvara"" ""lord of teeth"", from ""danta"" ""tooth"" and ""īšvara"" ""the Lord"". This unattested form was rejected by Roger Goossens, who proposed instead ""dvijarāja"" which carries"
"Brown-tailed mongoose The brown-tailed mongoose, Malagasy brown-tailed mongoose, or salano (""Salanoia concolor"") is a species of mammal in the family Eupleridae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The brown-tailed mongoose was first described in 1837 by French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire under the names ""Galidia unicolor"" and ""Galidia olivacea"". He placed both in the genus ""Galidia"", together with the ring-tailed mongoose (""Galidia elegans""), which is now recognized as the only species of that genus. However, the name ""unicolor"" had been a misprint for ""concolor"", and the"