On Kipling`s Junglebook.

Did you ever read `the Jungle Book` and the story of the boy Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle?  Can you remember the names of the different animals that appear in the tale...Baloo the bear,  Bagheera the black Panther,  Akela the Alfa Wolf,  Rikki Tikki Tavi the Mongoose or Shere Khan the evil Tiger ?

Thousands of kids have had the story read to them by their parents and other thousands have seen the movie, but few know that the Junglesetting in Kiplings Adventure actually does exist. 

The English writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (Mumbai) and though he did not spend much time in India, the country provided the setting for many of his books.

The Jungle Book, which features delightful stories of animal behaviour and the law of the jungle, is set in the `Seonee Forests` of Kanha National Park in Central India in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The Tiger reserve and park is home to a wide range of wild animals, birds and insects. 

Kanha today hosts around 80  BengalTigers, one of the highest tiger densities in India and is an important part of `Project Tiger,` which is Indias attempt to protect the endangered predator.

Rudyard Kipling wrote the tale of the Jungle Book in a bamboo hut on `Ngapali Beach` in Burma (Myanmar) in 1894 and it contains 14 stories for children from the Indian Jungles of Kanha.