"I've always been kind of obsessed with mongoose since I read the story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in the Jungle Book", she said. "I went on a safari holiday in Zambia a few years ago and people were all ...

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of Kipling’s short stories, also features a couple of famous snakes. In the story, an English family and their pet mongoose move to India. The problem, however, is that the ...

In the 1975 TV animated special by Chuck Jones called "Rikki Tikki Tavi," based on the short story in "The Jungle Book" written in 1894 by Rudyard Kipling, the title character is a young mongoose ...

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Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.

Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a gallant little mongoose, loved everything but snakes. His great enemies were the cobra family. Rikki was contemptuously friendly with Chuchundra, a muskrat, and on ...

Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling’s story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail.

Not too many cobras, but a shortage of Rikki-Tikki-Tavis. Rikki-tikki-tavi confronts Nag. Drawing by W. H. Drake. The little mongoose of the Kipling tale made short work of snakes, venomous or ...

This trait was also famously dramatized by Rudyard Kipling in his 1894 short story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," in which the titular mongoose saves a human family from villainous cobras.

They are tales of strange creatures, from man to mongoose, that seek the place where they belong in the wide and wild world. Although Mowgli, the man’s cub raised by wolves in the jungles of India, is ...

Popularized by the book Rikki Tikki Tavi, mongoose attack and kill cobras for food. Mongoose have a few advantages that help them against cobras. These agile predators have thick coats and skin to ...