Explore school textbooks Meet Mowgli, a precocious young boy who lives in the Jungle with the wolves and the rest of the wild animals. Mowgli is a man-cub raised by the wolf pack of the Seeonee hills, stranger to man, friend of animals, brother of the wolves. His mentors, Bagheera the Black Panther and Baloo the Bear, teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle that all its inhabitants must follow to show respect and live in peace. But destiny has other plans for Mowgli. Hunted by Shere Khan the Tiger, Mowgli must use the ways of both man and beast to defeat the Tiger once and for all.