Born in Burbank, California, Reitherman is the son of German-born Disney animator Wolfgang Reitherman, and provided the voices of Mowgli in The Jungle Book and Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book is an American live action series adapted from the Japanese Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli series.
Father Wolf and Mother Wolf (Raksha), a pair of Indian wolves raising a family of cubs, are furious to learn that Shere Khan the lame tiger is hunting in their part of the jungle because he might kill men and bring human retribution upon the jungle.
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and its character Mowgli is based on Pench National Park.
Rudyard Kipling used the forests in the vicinity of Seoni, or as he spells it, Seeonee, as the setting for the Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), although the area is not an actual rainforest.
According to local legend, Vilkmergė was a girl raised by wolves, who bridged the divide between animals and humans, in the same way as Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli.
Mowgli | The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo | The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story | ''Mowgli made leader of the Bandar Log'' by John Charles Dollman | Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli |
In 2006, Prior’s ballet Mowgli (based on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book) was commissioned by choreographers Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vassilev of the Moscow State Classical Ballet.
In Rudyard Kipling's Second Jungle Book story "The King's Ankus", Mowgli finds the magnificently-jeweled elephant goad of the title in a hidden treasure chamber.