![]() Īkela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and colour He is large and grey and leads the pack by virtue of his strength and cunning. This is shown by his recurring references to the honour of the pack. Kipling portrays Akela with the character of an English gentleman. It is at such a meeting that the pack adopts the lost child Mowgli and Akela becomes one of Mowgli's mentors.Īkelā means "single or solitary" in Hindi. He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves and presides over the pack's council meetings. ![]() ![]() Akela as depicted on the frontispiece of The Two Jungle Books, published in 1895.Īkela ( Akelā also called The Lone Wolf or Big Wolf) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). ![]()
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