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Bagheera
Bagheera ( hi, बघीरा / ''Baghīrā'') 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 for panther or leopard, although the root word ''bagh'' means tiger."Kipling's list of names in the stories" excerpted from volume XII of ''The Complete Works'', Sussex edition, 1936. Character history Born in captivity in the of the |
The Jungle Book (1967 Film)
''The Jungle Book'' is a 1967 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book of the same title, it is the 19th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production, and the first animated feature film released after his death. The plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him to leave the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives. The early versions of both the screenplay and the soundtrack followed Kipling's work more closely, with a dramatic, dark, and sinister tone which Disney did not want in his family film, leading to writer Bill Peet and songwriter Terry Gilkyson being replaced. The casting employed famous actors and musicians Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders and Louis Prima, as well as Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baloo
Baloo (from hi, भालू ur, بھالو ''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. Name and species He is described in Kipling's work as "the sleepy brown bear". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his knowledge of Indian fauna, used the Hindi word "''Bhalu''" for several bear species, though Daniel Karlin, who edited the Penguin reissue of ''The Jungle Book'' in 1987, states that, with the exception of colour, Kipling's descriptions of Baloo are consistent with the sloth bear, as brown bears and Asian black bears do not occur in the Seoni area where t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shere Khan
Shere Khan (Hindi- शेर खान/ English pronunciation) 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 the chief among tigers." In "Mowgli's Brothers", Shere Khan's failed attempt to hunt humans causes a human "cub" to stray from its parents. When Shere Khan discovers the infant, it has been adopted by Indian wolves, Raksha and Father Wolf, who have named the child Mowgli. Mowgli is accepted into Akela's wolf pack and is protected by Bagheera ( a panther) and Baloo ( a bear). Furious at losing his kill, the tiger swears that the boy will be his some day. While Mowgli is growing up, Shere Khan infiltrates the wolf pack by promising the younger wolves rich rewards once Akela is deposed. When the young wolves manoeuvre Akela into missing his kil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 in the triumph of protagonists including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal over their enemies, as well as Mowgli's. Another important theme is of law and freedom; the stories are not about animal behaviour, still less about the Darwinian struggle for survival, but about human archetypes in animal form. They teach respect for authority, obedience, and knowing one's place in society with "the law of the jungle", but the stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hathi
Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) and ''The Second Jungle Book'' (1895). Hathi is a bull elephant that lives in the jungle. Kipling named him after ''hāthī'' (), the Hindi word for "elephant". Kipling's character Hathi is head of the elephant troop. He is one of the oldest animals of the jungle and represents order, dignity and obedience to the Law of the Jungle. Hathi is famed for his patience and never hurries unnecessarily. In "How Fear Came" at the time when the water truce occurred, he tells Mowgli and the jungle animals' creation myth and describes Tha, the Creator. He told this after Shere Khan the tiger had boasted about killing a man purely for sport. In the story "Letting In the Jungle," Mowgli reveals that Hathi once destroyed a human village in revenge for being captured and persuades Hathi and his sons to do the same to the village where Mowgli once lived as punishment for thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messua (Jungle Books)
This is a list of characters that appear in Rudyard Kipling's 1894 ''The Jungle Book'' story collection, its 1895 sequel ''The Second Jungle Book'', and the various film adaptations based on those books. Characters include both human and talking animal characters. In the Mowgli stories * Mowgli (मोगली موگلی ''Maogalī''; feral child) – Also referred to as "Man Cub," he is a boy who was raised by wolves, Bagheera, and Baloo. Animals * Bagheera (बघीरा ''Baghīrā''; بگھیڑا ''Baghīrā'', "black panther"; black panther variety of leopard) – One of Mowgli's mentors and protector. * Baloo (भालू بھالو ''Bhālū'', "bear"; brown bear) – One of Mowgli's mentors and his friend. In Kipling's book, he is described as a sleepy old bear who teaches Mowgli the law of the jungle. * Kaa (का کا ''Kā'' Indian rock python) – Mowgli's wise mentor and friend, though also feared throughout the jungle for his/her mesmerizing "hunger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Wolf
This is a list of characters that appear in Rudyard Kipling's 1894 ''The Jungle Book'' story collection, its 1895 sequel ''The Second Jungle Book'', and the various film adaptations based on those books. Characters include both human and talking animal characters. In the Mowgli stories * Mowgli (मोगली موگلی ''Maogalī''; feral child) – Also referred to as "Man Cub," he is a boy who was raised by wolves, Bagheera, and Baloo. Animals * Bagheera (बघीरा ''Baghīrā''; بگھیڑا ''Baghīrā'', "black panther"; black panther variety of leopard) – One of Mowgli's mentors and protector. * Baloo (भालू بھالو ''Bhālū'', "bear"; brown bear) – One of Mowgli's mentors and his friend. In Kipling's book, he is described as a sleepy old bear who teaches Mowgli the law of the jungle. * Kaa (का کا ''Kā'' Indian rock python) – Mowgli's wise mentor and friend, though also feared throughout the jungle for his/her mesmerizing "hunger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mowgli's Brothers
"Mowgli's Brothers" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Chronologically it is the first story about Mowgli although it was written after " In the Rukh" in which Mowgli appears as an adult. The story first appeared in the January 1894 issue of '' St. Nicholas Magazine'' and was collected as the first story in ''The Jungle Book'' later in 1894 where it is accompanied by the poem "Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack". The story also appears in ''All the Mowgli Stories''. In 1992 it was published as a separate volume with woodcut illustrations by Christopher Wormell. The text is available on-line from several sources as part of ''The Jungle Book''. The story was adapted as a 25-minute animated television cartoon by Chuck Jones in 1976. Jones also directed adaptations of "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and "The White Seal". Plot summary Father Wolf (Rama) and Mother Wolf ( Raksha), a pair of wolves raising a family of cubs, are furious to learn from Tabaqui the jackal that Shere Khan the lame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Cabot (actor)
Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (6 July 1918 – 23 August 1977) was a British actor. He is best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, Giles French, opposite Brian Keith's character, William "Uncle Bill" Davis, in the CBS-TV sitcom ''Family Affair'' (1966–1971). He was also known for playing the Wazir in the film '' Kismet'' (1955) and Dr. Carl Hyatt in the CBS-TV series ''Checkmate'' (1960–1962). Cabot was also a voice performer in many Disney animated films. He made one of his first contributions in '' The Sword in the Stone'' (1963), as both the narrator and Lord Ector. He later played Bagheera in ''The Jungle Book'' (1967). His longest-standing role came through the ''Winnie the Pooh'' series, in which he narrated ''Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree'' (1966), ''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day'' (1968), ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'' (1974), and '' The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' (1977). Early life Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot was born o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raksha (The Jungle Book)
Raksha ( hi, रक्षा / ''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''. History 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 Rama 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 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. Disney * Raksha appears briefly at the beginning of Disney's '' The Jungle Book''. Bagheera discovers young Mowgli in the jungle, and take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Leopard
The Indian leopard (''Panthera pardus fusca'') is a leopard subspecies widely distributed on the Indian subcontinent. The species ''Panthera pardus'' is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because populations have declined following habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching for the illegal trade of skins and body parts, and persecution due to conflict situations. The Indian leopard is one of the big cats occurring on the Indian subcontinent, along with the Asiatic lion, Bengal tiger, snow leopard and clouded leopard. In 2014, a national census of leopards around tiger habitats was carried out in India except the northeast. 7,910 individuals were estimated in surveyed areas and a national total of 12,000–14,000 speculated. Taxonomy ''Felis fusca'' was the scientific name proposed by Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer in 1794 who described a black leopard from Bengal that was on display at the Tower of London. ''Leopardus perniger'' proposed by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1863 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mowgli
Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in '' Many Inventions'', 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections ''The Jungle Book'' and ''The Second Jungle Book'' (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. Name In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "frog", describing his lack of fur. Kipling later said "Mowgli is a name I made up. It does not mean 'frog' in any language that I know of." Kipling stated that the first syllable of "Mowgli" should rhyme with "cow" (that is, ) rather than "mow" (). Kipling's Mowgli stories 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
