"Man is the weakest and most defenseless of living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him."

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.

Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a main character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.