Rikki - Tikki - Tavi - wikipedia Rikki - Tikki - Tavi For the book illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, see Rikki - Tikki - Tavi ( Picture book ). Later edition cover of Rikki - Tikki - Tavi by Rudyard Kipling `` Rikki - Tikki - Tavi '' is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. The story has often been anthologized, and has been published more than several times as a short book in its own right. Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Adaptations 2.1 Film 2.2 Literature 2.3 Music 2.4 slang 3 References 4 External links Plot summary Rikki - Tikki - Tavi in Chuck Jones ' animated film The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki - Tikki - Tavi ( for his chattering vocalizations ) after he is adopted into a British family residing in India, as a pet and as protection against cobras. After becoming friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, Rikki is warned of two cobras Nag and Nagaina, who are angered by the family 's presence on their territory. Accordingly, Nag enters the house 's bathroom before dawn to kill the humans and make Rikki leave so their babies will grow in a safe place without worries. Nag is subsequently ambushed and attacked by Rikki from behind. The struggle that ensues awakens the human family and the father kills Nag with a shotgun. The grieving Nagaina attempts revenge against Rikki 's humans, cornering them as they have breakfast on an outdoor veranda. While she is distracted by a female tailor bird, Rikki destroys the cobra 's unhatched brood of eggs except for one. He carries it to where Nagaina is threatening to bite the child Teddy while his parents watch helplessly. Nagaina recovers her egg, but is pursued by Rikki away from the house to the cobra 's underground nest where an unseen final battle takes place. Rikki emerges triumphant from the hole declaring Nagaina dead. His subsequent role is to protect the family by keeping the garden free from any future intrusion by snakes. Adaptations Film In 1965, in the Soviet Union, at the film studio `` Soyuzmultfilm, '' the director Alexandra Snezhko - Blotskaya shot an animated short of the story, titled Рикки - Тикки - Тави ( Rikki - Tikki - Tavi ). Ten years later, Chuck Jones adapted the story for a half hour television special in the United States, and four years later, Aleksandr Zguridi and Nana Kldiashvili directed a live action feature film titled Rikki - Tikki - Tavi. Literature There have been numerous book adaptions, including : Rikki - Tikki - Tavi and Other Animal Stories ( 1984 ), illustrated by Charles Keeping Rikki - Tikki - Tavi ( 1997 ), illustrated by Jerry Pinkney Music Three related songs are : Donovan 's `` Riki Tiki Tavi '' on his album from 1970, Open Road, in which Donovan compares the little mongoose to large institutions, such as the church and the government. `` Rikki Tikki Tavi '' is a song by alternative metal band Fair to Midland on their 2011 Boneske 's song `` Nagaina '' A composition by Alfred Schnittke made for the 1975 film of the same name. Tatsuro Yamashita includes the line `` Rikki - Tikki - Tavi '' in the chorus of his song `` 夏 へ の 扉 '' Slang During the Vietnam War the slang term for getting something done quickly was `` Most Rikki - Tick ''. References Jump up ^ Kipling, Rudyard. `` Rikki - tikki - tavi. '' haley Huang. 16 January 2014. Jump up ^ `` Rikki - Tikki - Tavi ''. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 5 December 2014. Jump up ^ `` Search results for ' ti : Rikki - Tikki - Tavi ' > ' Book ' > ' Fiction ' ''. worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved 3 June 2017. Jump up ^ `` Rikki - Tikki - Tavi and other animal stories ''. worldcat.org. OCLC. Retrieved 3 June 2017. 5. http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Glossary/Sixties_Term_Gloss_K_P.html#Letter ' M ' External links Find more aboutRikki - Tikki - Taviat Wikipedia 's sister projects Media from Wikimedia Commons Texts from Wikisource `` Rikki - Tikki - Tavi '' -- Full text from e-books at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia. Rikki Tikki Tavi public domain audiobook at LibriVox Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book Books The Jungle Book ( 1894 ) The Second Jungle Book ( 1895 ) All the Mowgli Stories ( 1933 ) Mowgli stories `` Mowgli 's Brothers '' `` Kaa 's Hunting '' `` Tiger ! Tiger ! '' `` Letting in the Jungle '' `` Red Dog '' Other stories `` Rikki - Tikki - Tavi '' `` Toomai of the Elephants '' Characters Mowgli Baloo Bagheera Akela Raksha Kaa Hathi Shere Khan Bandar - log King Louie Disney franchise Film The Jungle Book ( 1967 ) The Jungle Book ( 1994 ) The Jungle Book : Mowgli 's Story ( 1998 ) The Jungle Book 2 ( 2003 ) The Jungle Book ( 2016 ) Television TaleSpin ( 1990 -- 91 ) Jungle Cubs ( 1996 -- 1998 ) Soundtrack `` Colonel Hathi 's March '' `` The Bare Necessities '' `` I Wan'na Be like You '' `` Trust in Me '' `` That 's What Friends Are For '' `` My Own Home '' `` Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai '' Video games The Jungle Book ( 1993 ) The Jungle Book Groove Party ( 2000 ) Other The Jungle Book : Alive with Magic Colonel Hathi 's Pizza Outpost Other adaptations Film Elephant Boy ( 1937 ) Jungle Book ( 1942 ) Adventures of Mowgli ( 1973 ) The Second Jungle Book : Mowgli & Baloo ( 1997 ) Mowgli 's First Adventure : In Search of the Elephant Eye Diamond ( 1998 ) Mowgli ( 2019 ) Television Elephant Boy ( 1973 ) Mowgli 's Brothers ( 1976 ) Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli ( 1989 -- 90 ) episodes Mowgli : The New Adventures of the Jungle Book ( 1998 ) The Jungle Book ( 2010 -- ) Other The Third Jungle Book ( 1992 ) A dzsungel könyve Djungelboken Related Law of the jungle Mowgli syndrome The Graveyard Book ( 2008 ) Rudyard Kipling Novels The Light that Failed ( 1891 ) Captains Courageous ( 1896 ) Kim ( 1901 ) Collections Plain Tales from the Hills ( 1888 ) Soldiers Three ( 1888 ) The Story of the Gadsbys ( 1888 ) In Black and White ( 1888 ) The Phantom ' Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales ( 1888 ) Under the Deodars ( 1888 ) Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories ( 1888 ) From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel ( 1889 ) Barrack - Room Ballads ( 1892, poetry ) Many Inventions ( 1893 ) The Jungle Book ( 1894 ) `` Mowgli 's Brothers '' `` Kaa 's Hunting '' `` Tiger ! Tiger ! '' `` Rikki - Tikki - Tavi '' The Second Jungle Book ( 1895 ) `` Letting in the Jungle '' `` Red Dog '' All the Mowgli Stories ( c. 1895 ) The Seven Seas ( 1896, poetry ) The Day 's Work ( 1898 ) Stalky & Co. ( 1899 ) Just So Stories ( 1902 ) The Five Nations ( 1903, poetry ) Puck of Pook 's Hill ( 1906 ) Rewards and Fairies ( 1910 ) The Fringes of the Fleet ( 1915, non-fiction ) Debits and Credits ( 1926 ) Limits and Renewals ( 1932 ) Rudyard Kipling 's Verse : Definitive Edition ( 1940 ) A Choice of Kipling 's Verse ( by T.S. Eliot, 1941 ) Poems `` The Absent - Minded Beggar '' `` The Ballad of the `` Clampherdown '' '' `` The Ballad of East and West '' `` The Beginnings '' `` The Bell Buoy '' `` The Betrothed '' `` Big Steamers '' `` Boots '' `` Cold Iron '' `` Dane - geld '' `` Danny Deever '' `` A Death - Bed '' `` The Female of the Species '' `` Fuzzy - Wuzzy '' `` Gentleman ranker '' `` The Gods of the Copybook Headings '' `` Gunga Din '' `` Hymn Before Action '' `` If -- '' `` In the Neolithic Age '' `` The King 's Pilgrimage '' `` The Last of the Light Brigade '' `` The Lowestoft Boat '' `` Mandalay '' `` The Mary Gloster '' `` McAndrew 's Hymn '' `` My Boy Jack '' `` Recessional '' `` A Song in Storm '' `` The Sons of Martha '' `` Submarines '' `` The Sweepers '' `` Tommy '' `` Ubique '' `` The White Man 's Burden '' `` The Widow at Windsor '' Short stories ``. 007 '' `` The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly '' `` Baa Baa, Black Sheep '' `` Bread upon the Waters '' `` The Broken Link Handicap '' `` The Butterfly that Stamped '' `` Consequences '' `` The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin '' `` Cupid 's Arrows '' `` The Devil and the Deep Sea '' `` The Drums of the Fore and Aft '' `` Fairy - Kist '' `` False Dawn '' `` A Germ - Destroyer '' `` His Chance in Life '' `` His Wedded Wife '' `` In the House of Suddhoo '' `` Kidnapped '' `` Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris '' `` Lispeth '' `` The Man Who Would Be King '' `` A Matter of Fact '' `` Miss Youghal 's Sais '' `` The Mother Hive '' `` Ortheris '' `` The Other Man '' `` The Rescue of Pluffles '' `` The Ship that Found Herself '' `` The Sing - Song of Old Man Kangaroo '' `` The Taking of Lungtungpen '' `` Three and -- an Extra '' `` The Three Musketeers '' `` Thrown Away '' `` Toomai of the Elephants '' `` Watches of the Night '' `` Wireless '' `` Yoked with an Unbeliever '' Related Bibliography Bateman 's ( house ) Indian Railway Library Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer Iron Ring Law of the jungle Aerial Board of Control My Boy Jack ( 1997 play ) Rudyard Kipling : A Remembrance Tale ( 2006 documentary ) My Boy Jack ( 2007 film ) Family Elsie Bambridge ( daughter ) John Kipling ( son ) John Lockwood Kipling ( father ) MacDonald sisters ( mother 's family ) Stanley Baldwin ( cousin ) Georgiana Burne - Jones ( aunt ) Edward Burne - Jones ( uncle ) Philip Burne - Jones ( cousin ) Edward Poynter ( uncle ) Alfred Baldwin ( uncle ) Chuck Jones Short subjects The Night Watchman ( 1938 ) Dog Gone Modern ( 1939 ) Robin Hood Makes Good ( 1939 ) Prest - O Change - O ( 1939 ) Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur ( 1939 ) Naughty but Mice ( 1939 ) Old Glory ( 1939 ) Snowman 's Land ( 1939 ) Little Brother Rat ( 1939 ) The Little Lion Hunter ( 1939 ) The Good Egg ( 1939 ) Sniffles and the Bookworm ( 1939 ) The Curious Puppy ( 1939 ) Mighty Hunters ( 1940 ) Elmer 's Candid Camera ( 1940 ) Sniffles Takes a Trip ( 1940 ) Tom Thumb in Trouble ( 1940 ) The Egg Collector ( 1940 ) Ghost Wanted ( 1940 ) Stage Fright ( 1940 ) Good Night, Elmer ( 1940 ) Bedtime for Sniffles ( 1940 ) Elmer 's Pet Rabbit ( 1941 ) Sniffles Bells the Cat ( 1941 ) Joe Glow, the Firefly ( 1941 ) Porky 's Ant ( 1941 ) Toy Trouble ( 1941 ) Porky 's Prize Pony ( 1941 ) Inki and the Lion ( 1941 ) Snow Time for Comedy ( 1941 ) The Brave Little Bat ( 1941 ) Saddle Silly ( 1941 ) Porky 's Midnight Matinee ( 1941 ) The Bird Came C.O.D. ( 1942 ) Porky 's Cafe ( 1942 ) Conrad the Sailor ( 1942 ) Dog Tired ( 1942 ) The Draft Horse ( 1942 ) Hold the Lion, Please ( 1942 ) The Squawkin ' Hawk ( 1942 ) Fox Pop ( 1942 ) The Dover Boys ( 1942 ) My Favorite Duck ( 1942 ) Case of the Missing Hare ( 1942 ) Point Rationing of Foods ( 1943 ) To Duck or Not to Duck ( 1943 ) Flop Goes the Weasel ( 1943 ) Super-Rabbit ( 1943 ) The Unbearable Bear ( 1943 ) The Aristo - Cat ( 1943 ) Coming Snafu ( 1943 ) Wackiki Wabbit ( 1943 ) Spies ( 1943 ) The Infantry Blues ( 1943 ) Fin'n Catty ( 1943 ) Inki and the Minah Bird ( 1943 ) Tom Turk and Daffy ( 1944 ) Bugs Bunny and the 3 Bears ( 1944 ) Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike ( 1944 ) The Weakly Reporter ( 1944 ) A Lecture on Camouflage ( 1944 ) Going Home ( 1944, unreleased ) Gas ( 1944 ) Angel Puss ( 1944 ) Outpost ( 1944 ) From Hand to Mouse ( 1944 ) Lost and Foundling ( 1944 ) Hell - Bent for Election ( 1944 ) Odor - able Kitty ( 1945 ) In the Aleutians - Isles of Enchantment ( 1945 ) Trap Happy Porky ( 1945 ) It 's Murder She Says ( 1945 ) Hare Conditioned ( 1945 ) Fresh Airedale ( 1945 ) No Buddy Atoll ( 1945 ) Hare Tonic ( 1945 ) Secrets of the Caribbean ( 1945 ) Quentin Quail ( 1946 ) Hush My Mouse ( 1946 ) Hair - Raising Hare ( 1946 ) Fair and Worm - er ( 1946 ) Roughly Squeaking ( 1946 ) Scent - imental Over You ( 1947 ) Inki at the Circus ( 1947 ) A Pest in the House ( 1947 ) Little Orphan Airedale ( 1947 ) House Hunting Mice ( 1948 ) A Feather in His Hare ( 1948 ) What 's Brewin ', Bruin ? ( 1948 ) Rabbit Punch ( 1948 ) Haredevil Hare ( 1948 ) You Were Never Duckier ( 1948 ) Daffy Dilly ( 1948 ) My Bunny Lies over the Sea ( 1948 ) Scaredy Cat ( 1948 ) So Much for So Little ( 1949 ) Awful Orphan ( 1949 ) Mississippi Hare ( 1949 ) Mouse Wreckers ( 1949 ) The Bee - Deviled Bruin ( 1949 ) Long - Haired Hare ( 1949 ) Often an Orphan ( 1949 ) Fast and Furry - ous ( 1949 ) Frigid Hare ( 1949 ) For Scent - imental Reasons ( 1949 ) Bear Feat ( 1949 ) Rabbit Hood ( 1949 ) The Scarlet Pumpernickel ( 1950 ) The Ducksters ( 1950 ) Dog Gone South ( 1950 ) 8 Ball Bunny ( 1950 ) The Hypo - Chondri - Cat ( 1950 ) Homeless Hare ( 1950 ) Caveman Inki ( 1950 ) Rabbit of Seville ( 1950 ) Two 's A Crowd ( 1950 ) Bunny Hugged ( 1951 ) Scentimental Romeo ( 1951 ) A Hound for Trouble ( 1951 ) Rabbit Fire ( 1951 ) Chow Hound ( 1951 ) The Wearing of the Grin ( 1951 ) Cheese Chasers ( 1951 ) A Bear for Punishment ( 1951 ) Drip - Along Daffy ( 1951 ) Operation : Rabbit ( 1952 ) Feed the Kitty ( 1952 ) Little Beau Pepé ( 1952 ) Water, Water Every Hare ( 1952 ) Orange Blossoms for Violet ( 1952 ) Beep, Beep ( 1952 ) The Hasty Hare ( 1952 ) Going ! Going ! Gosh ! ( 1952 ) Mouse Warming ( 1952 ) Rabbit Seasoning ( 1952 ) Terrier Stricken ( 1952 ) Do n't Give Up the Sheep ( 1953 ) Forward March Hare ( 1953 ) Kiss Me Cat ( 1953 ) Duck Amuck ( 1953 ) Much Ado About Nutting ( 1953 ) Wild Over You ( 1953 ) Duck Dodgers in the 241⁄2th Century ( 1953 ) Bully for Bugs ( 1953 ) Zipping Along ( 1953 ) Lumber Jack - Rabbit ( 1953 ) Duck ! Rabbit, Duck ! ( 1953 ) Punch Trunk ( 1953 ) Feline Frame - Up ( 1954 ) No Barking ( 1954 ) The Cat 's Bah ( 1954 ) Claws for Alarm ( 1954 ) Bewitched Bunny ( 1954 ) Stop ! Look ! And Hasten ! ( 1954 ) From A to Z-Z-Z-Z ( 1954 ) My Little Duckaroo ( 1954 ) Sheep Ahoy ( 1954 ) Baby Buggy Bunny ( 1954 ) Beanstalk Bunny ( 1955 ) Ready, Set, Zoom ! ( 1955 ) Past Perfumance ( 1955 ) Rabbit Rampage ( 1955 ) Double or Mutton ( 1955 ) Jumpin ' Jupiter ( 1955 ) Knight - mare Hare ( 1955 ) Two Scent 's Worth ( 1955 ) Guided Muscle ( 1955 ) One Froggy Evening ( 1955 ) A Hitch in Time ( 1955 ) 90 Days Wondering ( 1956 ) Bugs ' Bonnets ( 1956 ) Broom - Stick Bunny ( 1956 ) Rocket Squad ( 1956 ) Heaven Scent ( 1956 ) Gee Whiz - z-z-z-z-z-z ( 1956 ) Barbary Coast Bunny ( 1956 ) Rocket - bye Baby ( 1956 ) Deduce, You Say ! ( 1956 ) There They Go - Go - Go ! ( 1956 ) To Hare Is Human ( 1956 ) Scrambled Aches ( 1957 ) Ali Baba Bunny ( 1957 ) Go Fly a Kit ( 1957 ) Boyhood Daze ( 1957 ) Steal Wool ( 1957 ) What 's Opera, Doc ? ( 1957 ) Zoom and Bored ( 1957 ) Touché and Go ( 1957 ) Drafty, Is n't It ? ( 1957 ) Robin Hood Daffy ( 1958 ) Hare - Way to the Stars ( 1958 ) Whoa, Be-Gone ! ( 1958 ) To Itch His Own ( 1958 ) Hook, Line and Stinker ( 1958 ) Hip Hip - Hurry ! ( 1958 ) Cat Feud ( 1958 ) Baton Bunny ( 1959 ) Hot - Rod and Reel ! ( 1959 ) Wild About Hurry ( 1959 ) Fastest with the Mostest ( 1960 ) Hopalong Casualty ( 1960 ) Who Scent You ? ( 1960 ) Rabbit 's Feat ( 1960 ) Ready, Woolen and Able ( 1960 ) High Note ( 1960 ) Zip ' N Snort ( 1961 ) The Mouse on 57th Street ( 1961 ) The Abominable Snow Rabbit ( 1961 ) Lickety - Splat ( 1961 ) A Scent of the Matterhorn ( 1961 ) Compressed Hare ( 1961 ) Beep Prepared ( 1961 ) Nelly 's Folly ( 1961 ) A Sheep in the Deep ( 1962 ) Zoom at the Top ( 1962 ) Louvre Come Back to Me ! ( 1962 ) Martian Through Georgia ( 1962 ) I Was a Teenage Thumb ( 1963 ) Now Hear This ( 1963 ) Hare - Breadth Hurry ( 1963 ) Mad as a Mars Hare ( 1963 ) Transylvania 6 - 5000 ( 1963 ) To Beep or Not to Beep ( 1963 ) Tom and Jerry ( cartoon shorts, 1963 -- 1967 ) War and Pieces ( 1964 ) The Dot and the Line ( 1965 ) The Bear That Was n't ( 1967 ) Man : The Polluter ( 1973 ) Chariots of Fur ( 1994 ) Another Froggy Evening ( 1995 ) Superior Duck ( 1996 ) From Hare to Eternity ( 1997 ) Television specials How the Grinch Stole Christmas ! ( 1966 ) The Pogo Special Birthday Special ( 1969 ) Horton Hears a Who ! ( 1970 ) The Cat in the Hat ( 1971, producer ) The Cricket in Times Square ( 1973 ) A Very Merry Cricket ( 1973 ) Yankee Doodle Cricket ( 1975 ) The White Seal ( 1975 ) Rikki - Tikki - Tavi ( 1975 ) Mowgli 's Brothers ( 1976 ) Bugs and Daffy 's Carnival of the Animals ( 1976 ) A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur 's Court ( 1978 ) Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper ( 1978 ) Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Could n't Smile ( 1979 ) Bugs Bunny 's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ) Daffy Duck 's Thanks - for - Giving Special ( 1980 ) Bugs Bunny 's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ) A Chipmunk Christmas ( 1981 ) Peter and the Wolf ( 1995 ) Feature films Sleeping Beauty ( 1959, layout artist ) Gay Purr - ee ( 1962, screenplay ) The Phantom Tollbooth ( 1970 ) The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie ( 1979 ) Bugs Bunny 's 3rd Movie : 1001 Rabbit Tales ( 1982 ) Daffy Duck 's Fantastic Island ( 1983 ) Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988, animation consultant ) Gremlins 2 : The New Batch ( 1990, animation sequences ) Stay Tuned ( 1992, animation sequence ) Mrs. Doubtfire ( 1993, animation supervisor ) Four Rooms ( 1995, animation sequences ) Books Daffy Duck for President ( 1997 ) Comics Crawford ( 1977 -- 1978 ) Characters Bugs Bunny Charlie Dog Claude Cat Count Blood Count Daffy Duck Elmer Fudd Gossamer Henery Hawk Hubie and Bertie Marc Antony and Pussyfoot Marvin the Martian Michigan J. Frog Penelope Pussycat Pepé Le Pew Porky Pig Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog Sniffles The Three Bears Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner Witch Hazel Other works Chuck Amuck : The Movie Chuck Jones : Extremes & Inbetweens -- A Life in Animation Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rikki-Tikki-Tavi&oldid=854758062 '' Categories : Fictional mongooses The Jungle Book stories Literature featuring anthropomorphic characters 1894 short stories Short stories set in India Fictional characters introduced in 1894 Male characters in literature Male characters in animation Hidden categories : Articles with LibriVox links Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikisource Български Euskara Français हिन्दी Italiano עברית Nederlands Română Русский Simple English Українська 4 more Edit links This page was last edited on 13 August 2018, at 15 : 38 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: where does the beginning of rikki-tikki-tavi take place
Answer: India