One day, Gray Brother, one of his wolf siblings, wakes him. She treats him like her own but Mowgli, used to living in the jungle, is not comfortable or at ease in a human home. Messua, the woman, decides he is not their missing boy, but a boy sent by the Gods to make up for their son being taken away. When he arrives, he is welcomed into the home of a couple who believe him to be their long-lost son who was taken from them as an infant by a tiger. Hugging his wolf family, who ask him to return one day, he goes towards the nearest village to find his own people. However, Mowgli has fire that he has been tending, and knowing how much the animals fear fire, he threatens Shere Khan with it and then orders that they leave Akela safe. Shere Khan again demands that Mowgli be given to him and a fight ensues Shere Khan has a lot of the younger wolves on his side and they depose Akela, the wise and aging leader of the pack. Once he is kidnapped by the Monkey-People, but Baloo, Bagheera, and the python Kaa save him. Mowgli spends his childhood learning the ways of the jungle from Baloo, hunting with Bagheera, and living with his wolf family. This is seconded by Bagheera, the black panther, who buys Mowgli's safety by offering up to the pack a fat bull that he has just killed. As Mother prepares to fight for her man-cub, Baloo, the old brown bear, speaks for him and promises to teach him the laws of the jungle. The Law of the Jungle states that if there is a dispute, a cub needs to have two members of the pack that are not his mother or father speak for him. At the wolves’ Circle Rock Council, Mowgli's right to be a member of the pack is questioned by Shere Khan, who still feels that the boy belongs to him. Quickly she decides to bring the boy into her family, naming him Mowgli, which means "little frog.” Mother agrees to show him to the pack alongside her own cubs to be identified, so that they can be free to run and play without fear of being killed. He is the prey that the tiger is looking for. Mother Wolf protects her four cubs but is amazed to see a little, naked, brown human cub running into the cave. The Seeonee pack of wolves in the jungle head to their family lair when, thanks to the gossip of the jackal Tabaqui, they hear Shere Khan, the tiger with a pronounced limp but passion for fighting, is approaching.
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