In The Jungle Book, Colonel Hathi was the leader of which animals?
Hathi Hathi Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895). Hathi is a bull elephant that lives in the jungle. Kipling named him after "hāthī" (हाथी), the Hindi word for "elephant". Hathi is head of the elephant troop. He is one of the oldest animals of the jungle and represents order, dignity and obedience to the Law of the Jungle. Hathi is famed for his patience and never hurries unnecessarily. In "How Fear Came", he tells the jungle animals' creation myth and describes Tha,
Hathi the Creator. In the story "Letting In the Jungle", Mowgli reveals that Hathi once destroyed a human village in revenge for being captured, and persuades Hathi and his sons to do the same to Buldeo's village as punishment for threatening Messua with execution. In the Disney film, the character of Hathi (voiced by J. Pat O'Malley), like the other characters in Kipling's Mowgli stories, is greatly transformed and becomes a comic character. He is called "Colonel Hathi", and he leads his wife, Winifred (voiced by Verna Felton), and his son, Hathi Jr. (voiced by Clint Howard), in a marching patrol