# Father Wolf — The Jungle Book character guide

> Father Wolf in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0002-mowgli-s-brothers

## Snapshot

A disciplined Seeonee wolf who checks his own killing spring mid-air when he finds a naked man-cub laughing up at him in the dark.

## Who they are

Father Wolf hunts by the Law of the Jungle and grumbles when Shere Khan's noise ruins a night's stalk, yet he is the one who carries the hairless baby home between jaws that could crush an egg. His instinct to pounce collides with something stranger—the child looks up and is not afraid—and he lays it among his own cubs without a scratch. His quiet decision to shelter Mowgli sets the pack's central quarrel in motion.

## In the story

### [Mowgli's Brothers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_book_se/chapters/mowgli-s-brothers)

The wolf who first finds Mowgli and brings him to the pack; trains Mowgli in the ways of the jungle.

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