Mowgli’s Brothers

Chil

Also known as the Kite

A kite named in the jungle's night-song as bringing home the night.

Mang

Also known as the Bat

A bat named in the jungle's night-song as setting the night free.

Father Wolf

Mother Wolf's mate and the father of four cubs. He adopts Mowgli, protects him from Shere Khan, and teaches him the ways of the jungle; when Mowgli leaves, he urges him to return.

Mother Wolf

Also known as Raksha · The Demon

Father Wolf's mate, who fiercely defends and adopts Mowgli alongside her four cubs. She loves Mowgli more than her own cubs and predicts that he will eventually hunt Shere Khan.

Tabaqui

Also known as the Dish-licker

A mischievous, tale-bearing jackal who scavenges and serves Shere Khan. The jungle animals fear his bouts of madness, and he summons Mowgli to the hostile Council.

Shere Khan

Also known as the Big One · Lungri · the Lame One

A tiger lame in one foot since birth who chiefly kills cattle and seeks to kill Mowgli. He turns younger wolves against Akela and Mowgli, but Mowgli drives him away with fire and vows to return with his hide.

Shere Khan's mother

Mentioned only, she named Shere Khan Lungri because of his congenital lameness.

Mowgli

Also known as Mowgli the Frog · Little Brother

A human boy adopted by Father Wolf and Mother Wolf and admitted into the Seeonee pack through Baloo's support and Bagheera's payment of a bull. When the pack turns against him, he uses fire to defeat Shere Khan and save Akela, then leaves for human society while promising to return to his wolf family.

Mowgli's parents

Mowgli's human parents, mentioned by Shere Khan as having fled when he pursued their child.

Akela

Also known as the Lone Wolf · the Dead Wolf

The aging gray leader of the Seeonee wolf-pack and a loyal defender of Mowgli. After the wolves arrange a hunt that exposes his weakness, he loses his leadership and offers to die without fighting if Mowgli is spared; Mowgli saves his life.

Young wolf at the Council

An unnamed wolf in his fourth year who challenges Mowgli's admission by repeating Shere Khan's objection to Akela.

Baloo

An elderly brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle. He speaks for Mowgli's admission and becomes one of his teachers.

Bagheera

Also known as the Black Panther

A cunning black panther who secures Mowgli's acceptance with a bull and becomes his teacher and protector. Born in captivity at the King's Palace at Oodeypore, he escaped into the jungle; he advises Mowgli to obtain fire to withstand the pack's rebellion.

Sahi

Also known as the Porcupine

A porcupine mentioned as a possible source of information that prompts Bagheera to warn Mowgli again about Shere Khan.

Mor

Also known as the Peacock

A peacock mentioned by Mowgli as a comparison for Shere Khan's long tail and loud talk.

Bagheera's mother

Mentioned only, she died in captivity in the cages of the King's Palace at Oodeypore, where Bagheera was born.

Sambhur buck

The buck used by the wolves to expose Akela's failing strength. He knocks Akela over when the wolf misses his hold.

Husbandman's wife

A village woman whom Mowgli watches tending her household fire. Her example helps him learn how to keep fire alive.

Husbandman

A village farmer mentioned as the husband of the woman whose household fire Mowgli watches and the father of the boy carrying charcoal.

Husbandman's son

A village boy who carries hot charcoal in a pot while going to tend cows. Mowgli takes the pot from him to obtain fire for the Council.