

Before long, Mowgli is caught by a gang of monkeys and taken to their leader, King Louie (Louis Prima) the orangutan, who makes a deal with Mowgli that if he tells him the secret of making fire like a human, then he will make it so he can stay in the jungle ("I Wan'na Be Like You"). Mowgli now wants to stay in the jungle more than ever. The boy soon meets up with the fun-loving bear Baloo (Phil Harris), who shows Mowgli the fun of having a care-free life and promises not to take him to the man village. Bagheera finds Mowgli and they argue Mowgli runs away from Bagheera. The next morning, Mowgli tries to join the Indian elephant patrol led by Colonel Hathi (J. Bagheera stops him, and he and Mowgli go to sleep. They spend the night on a large tree, where they encounter Kaa (Sterling Holloway), a python who hypnotizes Mowgli and tries to eat him. They leave that very night, but Mowgli is determined to stay in the jungle. The mother and father wolves raise him along with their own cubs and Mowgli soon becomes well acquainted with jungle life. One night, when the wolf pack learns that Shere Khan (George Sanders), a man-eating Bengal tiger, has returned to the jungle, they realize that Mowgli must be taken to the "man village" to protect him and those around him. He promptly takes him to a family of wolves that just had a litter of cubs. Mowgli (Bruce Reitherman) is found in a basket as a baby in the deep jungles of Madhya Pradesh, India by Bagheera (Sebastian Cabot), the black panther.

4 Differences between the book and the film.1.2 The Jungle Book home video release history.1.1 The Jungle Book theatrical release history.
