<P> 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 but is attacked by Rikki . The struggle that ensues awakens the human family and the father kills Nag with a shotgun . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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). Later, Aleksandr Zguridi and Nana Kldiashvili directed a live action feature film in 1975 titled Rikki - Tikki - Tavi . That same year, animator Chuck Jones adapted the story for a half hour television special in the United States . </P>

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