<Tr> <Th> Gender </Th> <Td> Male </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Family </Th> <Td> Raksha and Father Wolf (foster parents); Messua (foster mother); Wife (the daughter of Abdul Gafur); and unnamed son . </Td> </Tr> <P> Mowgli / ˈmaʊɡli / is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories . He is a naked feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894--1895), which also featured stories about other characters . </P> <P> In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "frog", describing his lack of fur . Kipling made up the name, and it "does not mean' frog' in any language other than the language of the forest ." </P>

Who created the character of mowgli a boy raised by wolves