A well-known fictional mongoose is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi , who appears in a short story of the same title in `` The Jungle Book '' ( 1894 ) by Rudyard Kipling .
A well-known mongoose written in fiction is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi , who has a short story of the same title in `` The Jungle Book '' ( 1894 ) by Rudyard Kipling .