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  2. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Wikipedia

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    "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. [1] It has often been anthologized and published several times as a short book. Book 5 of Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection, includes the mongoose and snake story, an ...

  3. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (picture book) - Wikipedia

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a 1997 retelling of Rudyard Kipling's classic story by Jerry Pinkney about a mongoose that protects a family from two cobras. The book won a Caldecott honor in 1998 for its illustrations.

  4. The Jungle Book - Wikipedia

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    The stories in The Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts such as the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. [7] For example, an older moral-filled mongoose and snake version of the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" story by Kipling is found in Book 5 of Panchatantra. [8] In a letter to the American author Edward Everett Hale, Kipling ...

  5. Common tailorbird - Wikipedia

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    "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", one of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book stories, includes a tailorbird couple, Darzee (which means "tailor" in Urdu) and his wife, as two of the key characters. [18] Darzee's wife is said to have feigned injury, but this behaviour is unknown in this species. [19]

  6. List of The Jungle Book characters - Wikipedia

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Indian grey mongoose) Nag and Nagaina (Indian cobras) – Nag is the Hindi word for "cobra". Darzee – Darzee means "tailor" in Hindi. Chuchundra (Asian house shrew, called a muskrat in the story) – his name is derived from "chuchunder", a term used for his species in India. Karait (common krait)

  7. The Jungle Book (2010 TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (voiced by Nigel Pilkington in seasons 1–2) is an Indian gray mongoose. Here he lives in the jungle with the other animals. He is very cute-faced, ferret-sized and fearless (once even fought with Shere Khan in order to defend Mowgli). Thuu is an Indian cobra, occasionally the leader of a cobra's nest.

  8. Adaptations of The Jungle Book - Wikipedia

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    The Jungle Book, Disney's first live-action remake of the 1967 animated film. It is the first and only Disney remake to depict Mowgli as an adult in the majority of the plot. Directed by Stephen Sommers; The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997), live-action film adaptation by TriStar Pictures. Directed by Dee McLachlan

  9. The Door into Summer - Wikipedia

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    Like all Heinlein's heroines from this period, she is an intelligent redhead, and clearly modeled on Virginia Heinlein, even having a version of her name and her childhood nickname, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Petronius the Arbiter, or Pete, Dan's cat. Highly vocal with a wide range of expressive sounds, he acts as a sounding board for Dan's ruminations ...