# Teddy — The Jungle Book character guide

> Teddy in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Emperor Theodore

**First appearance:** 0006-rikki-tikki-tavi

## Snapshot

A small English boy in a bungalow garden who adopts the half-drowned mongoose Rikki-tikki-tavi and calls him his own, unaware of the cobras beneath the floor.

## Who they are

Teddy is the child at the center of the bungalow household, the reason his parents keep the garden and the reason the cobras want it cleared. He feeds Rikki, carries him, and names him, treating the mongoose as a pet while the real war is fought under the melon-bed and in the bathroom. His innocence raises the stakes of every strike Nagaina plans.

## Relationships

### [Rikki-Tikki-Tavi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_book_se/characters/rikki_tikki_tavi)

_friendship_

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi forms a loyal bond with the human boy Teddy, protecting him and his family from snakes.

### [Kala Nag](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_book_se/characters/kala_nag)

_social_

Kala Nag and Teddy are characters from different stories with no direct interaction, linked only by the shared universe.

### [Rikki-Tikki-Tavi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_book_se/characters/rikki_tikki_tavi)

_friendship_

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi forms a loyal bond with the human boy Teddy, protecting him and his family from snakes.

### [Rikki-Tikki-Tavi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_book_se/characters/rikki_tikki_tavi)

_friendship_

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi forms a loyal bond with the human boy Teddy, protecting him and his family from snakes.

### [Kala Nag](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_book_se/characters/kala_nag)

_social_

Kala Nag and Teddy are characters from different stories with no direct interaction, linked only by the shared universe.

## In the story

### [Rikki-Tikki-Tavi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_jungle_book_se/chapters/rikki-tikki-tavi)

The small boy of the English family who first finds Rikki-tikki and becomes his friend; his life is endangered by Nagaina.

## Links

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