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"Toomai of the Elephants" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling about a young elephant-handler. It was first published in the December 1893 issue of St. Nicholas magazine and reprinted in the collection of Kipling short stories, The Jungle Book (1894). [ 1 ]
Unaware of this reprieve, Toomai takes Kala Nag and runs away into the jungle. There, they stumble upon the missing wild elephants, and Toomai sees them dancing. He leads Petersen to them. The other natives are awed, and hail him as "Toomai of the Elephants". Machua Appa offers to train the boy to become a hunter, a plan Petersen approves of.
Just So Stories First edition Author Rudyard Kipling Illustrator Rudyard Kipling Language English Genre Children's book Publisher Macmillan Publication date 1902 Publication place United Kingdom Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known ...
When they come back, he is hailed by both hunters and elephants, and the oldest and wisest hunter says that when Little Toomai grows up, he'll be called Toomai of the Elephants like his grandfather. "Shiv and the Grasshopper" This story has been published as a short book, and was the basis of the 1937 film Elephant Boy. [18] Toomai at the ...
Tha (था تھا Thā, "He was"; Indian elephant) – the first of the elephants according to Hathi. Thuu (थू تھو Thū; Indian cobra), in The King's Ankus – a male blind albino cobra, also called White Hood. Mowgli gives him the derisory epithet "Thuu" (meaning "it has dried") upon discovering that the supposedly deadly cobra's fangs ...
Elephant Boy, a 1937 film based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai of the Elephants" Elephant Boy (TV series) , a 1973 TV series based on "Toomai of the Elephants" "Elephant Boy", the nickname of Fred Schreiber , of The Howard Stern Show' s The Wack Pack
Elephant Boy is a 1973 Australian-British-German series based on the Rudyard Kipling story Toomai of the Elephants. It was shot on location in Sri Lanka from December 1971 to April 1972 and consisted of 13 episodes. [1] It aired on Channel Seven in Australia in 1973. [2]
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.