<P> Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs who created and developed the character Tarzan . Mowgli was also an influence for a number of other "wild boy" characters . </P> <P> Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson used the Mowgli stories as the basis for their humorous 1957 science fiction short story "Full Pack (Hokas Wild)". This is one of a series featuring a teddy bear - like race called Hokas who enjoy human literature but cannot quite grasp the distinction between fact and fiction . In this story, a group of Hokas get hold of a copy of The Jungle Book and begin to act it out, enlisting the help of a human boy to play Mowgli . The boy's mother, who is a little bemused to see teddy bears trying to act like wolves, tags along to try to keep him (and the Hokas) out of trouble . The situation is complicated by the arrival of three alien diplomats who just happen to resemble a monkey, a tiger and a snake . This story appears in the collection Hokas Pokas! (1998) (ISBN 0 - 671 - 57858 - 8), and is also available online . </P> <P> The Third Jungle Book (1992) by Pamela Jekel (ISBN 1 - 879373 - 22 - X) is a collection of new Mowgli stories in a fairly accurate pastiche of Kipling's style . </P> <P> Hunting Mowgli (2001) by Maxim Antinori (ISBN 1 - 931319 - 49 - 9) is a very short novel which describes a fateful meeting between Mowgli and a human hunter . </P>

Name of the jungle in which mowgli lived