What animal is kaa in the jungle book?

Baloo the bear

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There are bears in India, but most of them look nothing like Baloo, who is clearly modeled on the brown bear, a species mainly found in North America, Europe and throughout Russia, though there are a very small number in the northern Indian states of Jammu and Kasmir. In fact, in India, you’re most likely to see a sloth bear, which has a long, black shaggy coat, distinctive cream markings on its chest and long, curved claws adapted for digging up termite mounds and ants nests. If you’d really like to see one for yourself, try Satpura National Park. Some Asiatic black bears are found in Northern India, too.

Bagheera the black panther

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There tends to be a lot of confusion about what a black panther is, but usually it is a black or melanistic version of either a leopard (in Africa or Asia) or a jaguar (in Central and South America). Black panthers tend to be extremely rare, though one study suggests they are surprisingly common (and indeed the norm) in Peninsula Malaysia. Encounters with a leopards can be fatal, so don’t go thinking Bahheera’s relationship with Mowgli is in any way representative.

Shere Khan the tiger

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Tigers are India’s most iconic creature and probably the main reason why thousands of westerners travel there every year to go on safari. They are big business, too – a female tiger called Machali, believed to be 19 years old, is estimated to have earned £70 million for Indian tourism since 1998. But Shere Khan's hatred of Mowgli is understandable, given that tigers were persecuted in Kipling's time and still are today. Nevertheless, investment in anti-poaching efforts and wildlife reserve protection are paying dividends, and tiger numbers have been rising in India for at least the past six years or so. Reserves such as Kanha, Pench, Ranthambhore and Tadoba-Andhari are regarded as the best places to see them.

Raksha the wolf

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Once the world’s most widely distributed land mammal, the grey wolf persists in a few areas of India but in very low numbers. It is found as far south as the state of Tamil Nadu, the most southerly extent of its range in the world. Small by wolf standards, and their coat is more of a reddish-tawny colour than the straight slate or pale grey of North American animals. Stories of feral children that have lived with wolves (like Mowgli does) appear in the media from time to time, but most are shown to be hoaxes – one famous case from the 1920s involved two girls in Bengal, in India, who were reputedly raised by wolves. Later, it was concluded that their strange behaviour was down to developmental defects.

Kaa the snake

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Kaa is probably an Indian or Asiatic rock python, a reasonably common species over much of the Indian subcontinent. It can grow to about 6-7 metres long, so it's not the juggernaut-length monster depicted in the film. Most constricting snakes – pythons in Africa and Asia, boas in the Americas – are not dangerous to humans, though that doesn't stop people being afraid of them (ophidiophobia, since you ask).

King Louie the orangutan

Kaaका Background information Feature films The Jungle BookThe Jungle Book 2Bedknobs and Broomsticks (cameo)Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle BookWho Framed Roger Rabbit (cameo)Mickey's House of VillainsMickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of MouseThe Jungle Book (2016)Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (cameo) Short films The Simpsons: Welcome to the Club Shows DisneylandDuckTales (cameo)Jungle CubsHouse of Mouse Video games The Jungle BookThe Jungle Book Groove PartyDisney UniverseThe Jungle Book: Mowgli's RunDisney Crossy RoadDisney Emoji BlitzDisney Magic KingdomsDisney Heroes: Battle ModeDisney Sorcerer's Arena (upcoming) Park attractions Fantasmic!Mickey Mouse RevueGarden of the Twelve FriendsVillains Night Out!Momentous Animators Frank ThomasMilt Kahl Voice Sterling Holloway (original film)Hal Smith (Disney's Greatest Villains)Jim Cummings (1996-present)Scarlett Johansson (2016 film) Inspiration Kaa the Snake from Rudyard Kipling's "Mowgli" stories Character information Occupation Hypnotist Affiliations Disney Villains Likes Food, hypnotizing his prey, manipulating his prey, getting away Dislikes Starvations, being knocked out of trees, having a knot on his tail, Shere Khan abusing him, danger, Mowgli getting away from him, losing his prey Powers and abilities Hypnosis Status ActiveDeceased (2016 film) Source

Kaa is the secondary antagonist of Disney's 1967 animated feature film The Jungle Book. He is an enormous snake with an equally large appetite—specifically for Mowgli the man cub. Kaa's most dangerous attributes are his hypnotic eyes, which he uses to manipulate unsuspecting prey and lure them into his jaws and coils.

In Kipling's books, Kaa was Mowgli's wise mentor, akin to Baloo and Bagheera, and was very protective of him. When the characters were adapted in the film, Walt Disney did not like the idea of a benevolent snake and so Kaa was given an antagonistic role that would serve as one of the many reasons why Mowgli must leave the jungle.

He was animated by Frank Thomas in his entrance appearance where he first met Mowgli and nearly ate him. Due to the popularity of the character among the developers, he was given another scene and his own song ("Trust in Me", a recycled and revised version of "The Land of Sand", a scrapped song from 1964's Mary Poppins), this time animated by Milt Kahl. Sterling Holloway, Kaa's voice actor, also brought his own essence to the character by using a lisped voice.

Kaa is a sly, devious Indian Rock Python. He speaks with a soft, often entrancing tone to either lure his victims into a weary, dreamlike state or manipulate them into bestowing their trust, only to devour them unexpectedly. He furthers this by the use of his iconic ability to hypnotize his prey with his eyes, rendering them enchanted and under his command. A powerful and dangerous ability, Kaa is a feared inhabitant of the jungle. This is evidenced when the usually composed and fearless Bagheera was visibly terrified and pleaded with him when the panther stopped him from eating Mowgli. Such fear, however, does not resonate with the unofficial ruler of the jungle, Shere Khan the tiger. Kaa holds a disliking for Khan, seeing him as a hypocrite and believing the act of killing for pleasure—as opposed to survival—to be dishonorable. The two beasts are often at odds, though Shere Khan views Kaa as an "eyes and ears" of the jungle, relying on him to assist his search for Mowgli at one point in the film.

While not inherently malevolent, Kaa is still a fairly villainous character. His first attempt to devour Mowgli was a casual and opportunistic means to eat and survive. However, his later goal to eat the man-cub was mainly driven out of spite, swearing revenge on the boy after his first attempt to eat Mowgli ended in humiliating defeat. Furthermore, he is perfectly willing to hurt those who get in the way of his meals, as seen when he hypnotized and threatened to kill Bagheera.

Kaa appears to be playfully sadistic, emphasized by how he gloats over Mowgli's helpless situation as he prepared to devour him. He displayed even more sadism towards Shanti as he did not only gloat over her helplessness, but also outright revealed to her that he intended to eat her knowing she was unable to do anything about it. He enjoys teasing and playing with his food, hypnotized or not. He playfully tugged at Mowgli's wrists and ankles to stop him from escaping, and later savored the time before the kill when he hypnotized the man-cub and made him sleepwalk over his body.

Nevertheless, Kaa seems to insist on giving his victims a merciful end as he hypnotizes them into a state of bliss or sleep before eating them. Kaa has even admitted to himself that he is sympathetic towards Mowgli to a certain extent, before remembering his own intentions to make a meal out of the boy.

Though dangerous, manipulative and cunning, Kaa is not without his faults. Although he only hypnotized Mowgli when he was sure Bagheera was too sleepy to notice him, it was his own cockiness that woke the panther and made him lose his supper. He can be clumsy and easily sidetracked from his primary objective: to hypnotize and eat Mowgli. This results in his interactions with the man-cub to often end in humiliation to some degree.

Kaa is an Indian python that has grown to be extremely long for a member of his species. While his exact size is unknown, in the original book he is described as more than 30ft long. His eyes are yellow and fill with concentric circles of blue, yellow and purple when using hypnosis. He has golden scales and a lighter underbelly, and dark brown spots patterned across his back. Despite having a large body, Kaa's head and neck are small in comparison, although his mouth is large enough to take up most of his head. Like all pythons, Kaa can dislocate his jaw to open his mouth wide enough to swallow prey far larger than his head, although this must be done head-first.

Kaa comes across Mowgli and Bagheera in the branches of a large tree that the pair has chosen to spend the night in, just after Mowgli tells the panther he was able to look after himself. Half asleep, Bagheera is unaware of Kaa as he drops in and inspects the young boy with considerable relish. Deciding to eat Mowgli, he smacks his lips and calls the boy a "Delicious Man-Cub", but Mowgli is more annoyed than intimidated and angrily tells Kaa to leave him alone. Bagheera, assuming Mowgli was speaking to him, sleepily orders the man-cub to go to sleep.

Kaa takes advantage of the situation and begins hypnotizing Mowgli to sleep, intending to devour him without alerting the panther. Mowgli tries to resist the hypnosis, but is unable to look away. Kaa proceeds to wrap his coils around the boy, making him unable to physically resist. Mowgli begins to succumb to the spell, but manages to cry out to Bagheera for help. Kaa immediately silences the boy by constricting his neck with his tail, making him gulp loudly and squeezing him tightly. Coiled from waist to neck and unable to resist any further, Mowgli falls into a trance and can only blissfully smile as Kaa admires his catch.

Bagheera sleepily tells Mowgli he'll have no more arguments until morning, unaware that Kaa had fully hypnotized and coiled the boy just feet behind him. Kaa chuckles, musing to himself and his happily smiling prey that the man-cub "wouldn't be there in the morning". As he lifts his freshly hypnotized man-cub off the branch, Mowgli obeys the command to sleep and Kaa prepares him for eating.

Ironically, it is this laugh that awakens Bagheera who turns to see Kaa bearing down on the sleeping man-cub with his mouth open wide ready to swallow him. Bagheera rushes to the rescue, striking Kaa in the face before he could swallow the boy. However, Kaa is angered by the interference and begins to hypnotize Bagheera, failing to notice that Mowgli awoke when he dropped him. The boy shoves Kaa's massive coils off the branch with his feet, resulting in Kaa falling to the ground in a heap. While Mowgli slaps Bagheera awake, Kaa slithers off with a knot in his tail, swearing revenge on the boy. He vows to get the boy back in his coils again, but Mowgli only laughs at the snake's crippling and humiliating defeat.

A day later, Mowgli runs away from his guardians, feeling betrayed and upset. He wanders aimlessly through the jungle until he finally sits down under a tree. Almost immediately Kaa's tail comes down from the canopy and hoists him up into the branches. Mowgli is initially shocked to see Kaa, but wants nothing to do with the snake and untangles himself telling the snake to leave him alone. Kaa tries to hypnotize him again, but Mowgli immediately looks away. The snake uses his tail to turn Mowgli's head around to look him in the eyes, but Mowgli has learned from his last encounter and is wary of the snake's gaze.

Feigning to be hurt that the boy does not trust him, Kaa pretends to be benevolent. He playfully toys with Mowgli by wrapping his tail around the boy's wrist and ankle to stop him leaving (much to the man-cub's annoyance), as he tries to convince him that he wants to help him stay in the jungle.

Mowgli remains skeptical but out of curiosity he lowers his defenses and asks the snake how he plans to keep his word. Kaa keeps his plan ambiguous, making the offer on the condition he first has the man-cub's trust while pressing his forehead to Mowgli's. Mowgli's eyes momentarily widen, but he turns away from the snake, saying he does not trust anyone anymore. However, Kaa manages to trick Mowgli into letting his guard down by blindfolding him with a makeshift turban from his coils, insisting he is not like his friends who supposedly betrayed him.

The man-cub struggles to push him off his head, only to gaze directly into Kaa's eyes. With no time to react and unable to look away, Mowgli's eyes immediately fill with color and within seconds is successfully hypnotized once again. Kaa sings "Trust in Me" to his happily smiling prey, toying with the helpless boy as Mowgli obediently follows his commands. Kaa beckons Mowgli to close his eyes, having him sleepwalk off the branch and onto his coils high above the jungle floor. He rocks Mowgli in a makeshift hammock of coils, before balancing him on the tip of his tail- horizontally and upside down. Deep under Kaa's power, Mowgli begins to snore. Satisfied his prey is deeply asleep, he slides the hypnotized man-cub back into his coils and wraps him up ready for eating.

Before Kaa can devour Mowgli, the suspicious Shere Khan stops by after hearing Kaa's singing. Knowing the tiger is looking for Mowgli, Kaa is forced to hide the boy in the branches above. Kaa pretends to act surprised by the tiger's visit and tells him that he was merely singing to himself to sleep off sinus troubles. The snake tries to trick Shere Khan into letting his guard down in order to hypnotize him as he did with Mowgli, but the tiger is unsympathetic and nonchalantly resists the hypnosis before shoving his head to the ground. They are then interrupted by Mowgli's snoring above them, convincing Shere Khan that Kaa is hiding something and inspects his coils. Kaa uses his cunning to hide the man-cub while showing the tiger his seemingly empty coils, convincing Shere Khan that he does not have Mowgli. Khan leaves to continue the search, but not before threatening Kaa to inform him before anyone else should he happen to come across the man-cub.

Once he is out of earshot, Kaa shivers in disgust of the tiger's sadism, inadvertently causing his coils to unravel around Mowgli and wake him from the trance. Kaa takes a moment to pity the boy, but quickly dismisses the thought once he remembers his own intentions. Licking his lips and relishing the thought of his hypnotized man-cub waiting in the branches, he does not notice Mowgli climbing out of his coils. Mowgli is able to shove Kaa's coils off the branch and the snake is dragged to the ground once again. On the ground, Mowgli confronts Kaa and accuses him of lying to him, which he wasn't. Kaa, assuring Mowgli that it is like what he said: he can't trust anyone and attacks him, but is once again stopped by a knot in his tail getting caught in a bamboo cluster. Mowgli flees into the jungle, leaving the snake to express his animosity toward the boy. Despite his second humiliating defeat, Kaa apparently gives up trying to catch him as he slithers off to lick his wounds.

Kaa returned once again as the secondary antagonist but plays a relatively smaller role in the sequel than he did in the 1967 film and his name is not even used at all. One night, Kaa appears when Mowgli meets up with Baloo near the beginning of the film. Like before, Kaa attempts to eat Mowgli but faces many accidents and injuries as he pursues them. Mowgli and Baloo remain unaware of Kaa's presence, and the two walk away unharmed.

Kaa angrily states that he never wants to see another man-cub again, but changes his mind after he comes across the young girl Shanti, who unknowingly burns Kaa's tail with a torch while searching for Mowgli in the jungle. Licking his lips surreptitiously, Kaa lurks in the trees above the girl in order to frighten her and surprise her when the time is right. By the time Kaa manages to corner her, Shanti realizes that someone is stalking her and frighteningly asks who it is. Kaa then finally reveals himself and as Shanti lacks survival skills, she falls easily for Kaa's trick, looking directly into his eyes. She gives a brief smile in response to the overwhelming bliss as the hypnosis starts taking effect, putting her in a trance immediately.

Once Shanti drops her torch, she is left completely defenseless, allowing Kaa to sadistically gloat over her helplessness as much as he pleases. Kaa inquires whether Shanti is lost, stroking her hair before making her nod her head in agreement. Slithering around the young damsel in distress, Kaa asks her if she is hungry. Nuzzling her cheek, Kaa whispers into Shanti's ear that he is starving, gloating about the girl's impending doom. The snake makes Shanti step on top of a boulder and positions her to be devoured. Shanti looks up at Kaa vacantly as he hovers above her, preparing to strike. Fortunately, Ranjan saves Shanti's life by pulling her away from Kaa's jaws just as the snake was about to eat her, making him swallow the boulder Shanti was standing on instead. Shanti falls to the ground and snaps out of the trance as Ranjan mercilessly beats up Kaa with a stick. Kaa flees from Ranjan and tries to slither down a hill but the weight of the boulder causes him to tumble down until he hits a coconut tree.

Kaa laments over his humiliating defeat but is suddenly encountered by Shere Khan in his search for Mowgli, who mocks the snake until he hears him vent his frustration over a man-cub. Shere Khan interrogates him, thinking he is referring to Mowgli and demands information about his whereabouts. Kaa assures Shere Khan that all he knows is that Mowgli has recently left the Man Village, but truthfully has no idea where he is at the moment. Shere Khan does not believe him and begins to lose his temper as he reiterates his demand. To save himself from Shere Khan's wrath, Kaa fearfully lies to the tiger that Mowgli is in the swamp. Shere Khan doubts his claim but nevertheless lets him go after threatening to make him pay if he is lying. Kaa insists Mowgli is in the swamp and even assures him that he would come with him if not for the boulder he accidentally swallowed earlier, which he fears is going to cause him indigestion very soon.

Kaa is not seen again for the rest of the film but is mentioned by Shere Khan when he arrives at the swamp where Mowgli is nowhere to be seen and angrily splashes the water after realizing that Kaa lied to him. He is mentioned again by Shanti to Baloo, who briefly said she was attacked by a snake. Lastly, after Shanti, Mowgli, and Ranjan reunite with their families, Ranjan proudly tells his father and all the villagers that he saved Shanti's life from a snake.

Kaa appeared as a much younger snake in the Jungle Cubs, with Baloo, Bagheera, Colonel Hathi, King Louie, and Shere Khan. Here, he is voiced by Jim Cummings and, unlike the movie, he is a protagonist, which interestingly, actually follows the original story, unlike the film.

As a younger snake, Kaa has yet to master hypnosis at his young age, usually failing or hypnotizing the wrong person by mistake. Kaa is more of the cowardly friend in the group, often being doubtful when an adventure is at hand. Most of the time, his fearfulness can be understandable, being that the children often find themselves in some of the most dangerous predicaments in their jungle. Kaa is often seen attempting to eat a local shrew with a wise-cracking persona. However, as the shrew is too clever for the snake, he ultimately fails in the end.

During the first season, Kaa appears in the same color as in the original movie, whilst in the second season, his skin is light green and his spots are magenta. He also appears to be slightly shorter than the previous season, despite turning older with the rest of the cubs, and also still has the same voice and actor.

Many episodes revolve around Kaa, including one where his birthday arrived, and yet everyone forgot. To make up for it, they acted as if his hypnotism was excellent and pretended to be in trances. In the end, however, Kaa discovers this and breaks down. His friends comfort him and apologize, leaving all to be well.

In the Jungle Cubs: Born to Be Wild DVD, Kaa, as an adult, was the first character to be revisited by Baloo, Mowgli, and Bagheera. Here, he attempts to devour Mowgli whilst he rested, but Baloo foiled the snake by grabbing his tail and throwing him into a gorge.

Kaa makes several cameos in the show, House of Mouse.

In the episode "Ask Von Drake", he is seen being threatened by Shere Khan while Ludwig Von Drake sings a song.

In "Turkey Day", Kaa was seen attempting to devour Mowgli after not receiving a turkey for dinner.

In "Jiminy Cricket", he is seen sitting at a table with Baloo, Mowgli, Shere Khan, and Bagheera.

In "Unplugged Club", King Louie was seen grabbing Kaa (who was hanging above next to him) by the neck and shaking him like a rattle as Mickey Mouse went over to thank Zeus for using one of his lightning bolts to repower the club.

In "Max's Embarrassing Date", he is seen sitting a table with Sir Hiss.

In "Goofy's Menu Magic", Kaa is seen having coiled and hypnotized Mowgli when Mickey mentioned the guests were getting hungry.

In Mickey's House of Villains, Kaa joins his fellow villains in taking over the House of Mouse on Halloween. He joins in the hostile takeover during the song "It's Our House Now!", while attempting to hypnotize Minnie, during which he briefly reprises "Trust in Me". He later stands by Jafar's side when he battles Mickey and soon enough flees with the other villains when Mickey and his friends defeat Jafar.

A pink snake resembling Kaa was among the soccer match spectators in Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

A bootlegged version of Kaa appears in Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers, where he is revealed to have either a close friendship or coworker bond with Bonkers.

A snake-like character resembling Kaa made a cameo during the final scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with the other Disney characters.

A snake resembling Kaa made a cameo in DuckTales episode, "Sweet Duck of Youth". He was seen when Scrooge was walking through the swamps alone.

A far more menacing incarnation of the character appeared in the 1994 live-action adaptation. He was brought to life using an anaconda but the bulk of his appearances were made using a mixture of CGI and animatronics. Kaa seemed to serve King Louie, killing any intruders to the city when the orangutan clapped his hands 9 times to summon him. Kaa attacked Mowgli inside the monkey city by tackling him into the moat and attempted to drown him, but Mowgli wounded him with a bejeweled dagger, the python is then seen fleeing in a cloud of his blood.

By the time Mowgli returns to the city with Captain William Boone (the main villain of the film) and Kitty, Kaa has fully healed from their prior confrontation. Mowgli flees with Kitty when he hears King Louie summoning the snake. Boone starts gathering as much treasure as he can, but suddenly notices that the monkeys have gone silent; Kaa suddenly appears, then scares the injured Boone into the moat, where the heavy load of treasure, he is carrying weighs him straight to the bottom in a cloud of his own blood. Desperately trying to struggle free, Boone sees the skeletal remains of Kaa's past victims, just seconds before the villain finally meets his death by the snake.

The most likely reason for this change in adaptation is because, in the original story of The Jungle Book, the treasure within the monkey city was guarded by a cobra.

Kaa appears in the 2016 live-action film adaptation as a minor antagonist. Unlike in the previous adaptations, this incarnation of Kaa is a female snake, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. In this version, she is depicted as a Burmese Python and is of similar size to her book counterpart; some 30 feet long.

Kaa first appears when Mowgli stumbles upon her territory deep in the forest, after he is separated from Bagheera by the evil tiger named Shere Khan, where he discovers her shed snakeskin. After climbing into the trees and chasing animals that stole his food, Kaa begins to speak to him from above the trees before revealing herself to him.

Luring him in by promising to keep him safe, Kaa hypnotizes him and reveals that Mowgli came to live in the jungle because Shere Khan killed his father as they were traveling between villages and that Bagheera later found Mowgli and brought him over to the wolves for protection. She also reveals to him the power of the "Red Flower" (fire) and its dangers in her vision. During her storytelling, she attempts to devour him, but a passing sloth bear named Baloo attacks Kaa and rescues Mowgli, freeing him in the process.

Kaa isn't seen again for the rest of the film and it is unknown if Baloo killed her or not. During the end credits, however, she is heard singing her song, "Trust in Me".

Kaa is the boss character in Chapter II: The Great Tree. Kaa's hypnotic eye was his main projectile where he can damage Mowgli's life points. Mowgli has to avoid or dodge the projectile before it disappears. The only way to defeat Kaa is to splattered him with either a single or double bananas to deal heavy damage. Once Kaa is defeated, he will fall onto the Great Tree.

In the US release of Mickey Mousecapade, a snake heavily resembling Kaa appears as a boss enemy.

Kaa plays a role in the game, where he sings his own original song, "A Mood for Food"; replacing "Trust in Me" as the villainous song meant to manipulate a helpless Mowgli.

In Disney Universe, Kaa does not appear as an add-on character costume but appears as an accessory on a costume weapon. Concept art for the Medusa power up earlier showed 3 snakes resembling Kaa for the mask’s hair.

In Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, Kaa is only briefly mentioned by Mowgli during meet-and-greets. "If anyone sees Kaa slithering around anywhere, better let me deal with him."

In Disney Heroes: Battle Mode Kaa appears as a playable character, he can hit enemies with its tail and hypnotize them to hex them.

In California, Kaa appears onscreen in Mickey and the Magical Map, during King Louie's section.

In the Disneyland version of Fantasmic!, Kaa appears in Mickey's dreams of the jungle.

A light-outlined version of Kaa also appeared in Mickey's Mix Magic.

Kaa appeared in several shows such as Celebrate the Magic in the Magic Kingdom and Wonderful World of Animation in Disney's Hollywood Studios. He also appeared in Journey into the Jungle Book and plans to devour Mowgli as he did in the film.

In Tokyo Disneyland, a mosaic of Kaa appears on the ground near Jungle Cruise. Kaa was also featured in the jungle-inspired float in the former daytime parade Jubilation!, as part of its 25th-anniversary celebration.

In the Tokyo DisneySea version of Fantasmic!, Kaa is seen floating about as he did in the Disneyland version.

In Disneyland Paris park, Kaa was seen in the castle spectacular Disney Dreams! during the "I Wanna Be Like You" section where he tries to hypnotize the shadow of Peter Pan. However, he failed when King Louie's ruins fell apart on top of him.

A statue of Kaa can also be seen in the Adventureland area in the jungle section, next to a statue of Zazu.

Kaa is featured in the jungle-inspired float in the Flights of Fantasy parade in the park. He also appeared as one of Maleficent's invited guests during the finale of Villains Night Out!.

Kaa is also the first villain to appear in the projection show Momentous, in which he wraps his coils around the castle and attempts to hypnotize the audience with his eyes.

Kaa is one of the characters part of Garden of the Twelve Friends at Shanghai Disneyland, representing the Chinese Zodiac symbol of the Snake.

Kaa is a fictional character from The Jungle Book stories written by Rudyard Kipling. He is a giant snake who is 30 feet long.

In the books and many of the screen adaptations, Kaa is an ally of main protagonist Mowgli, acting as a friend and trusted mentor or father figure alongside Bagheera and Baloo. However, Disney's screen adaptations portray him as a secondary antagonist who attempts to eat Mowgli.

First introduced in the story "Kaa's Hunting" in The Jungle Book, Kaa is a huge and powerful snake, more than 100 years old and still in his prime. In "Kaa's Hunting", Bagheera and Baloo enlist Kaa's help to rescue Mowgli when the man-cub is kidnapped by Bandar-log (monkeys) and taken to an abandoned human city called the Cold Lairs. Kaa breaks down the wall of the building in which Mowgli is imprisoned and uses his serpentine hypnosis to draw the monkeys toward his waiting jaws. Bagheera and Baloo are also hypnotized, but Mowgli is immune because he is human and breaks the spell on his friends.

In The Second Jungle Book, Kaa appears in the first half of the story "The King's Ankus". After Kaa and Mowgli spend some time relaxing, bathing and wrestling, Kaa persuades Mowgli to visit a treasure chamber guarded by an old cobra beneath the same Cold Lairs. The cobra tries to kill Mowgli but its venom has dried up. Mowgli takes a jeweled item away as a souvenir, not realizing the trouble it will cause them, and Kaa departs.

In "Red Dog", Mowgli asks Kaa for help when his wolf pack is threatened by rampaging dholes (the red dogs of the title). Kaa goes into a trance so that he can search his century-long memory for a stratagem to defeat the dogs:

With Kaa's help Mowgli tricks the dholes into attacking prematurely. Kaa takes no part in the resulting battle (obliquely citing his loyalty to the boy rather than to the wolves, who often caused Mowgli grief) but Mowgli and the wolves finally kill all the dholes, though not without grievous losses.

In "The Spring Running", as the teenage Mowgli reluctantly prepares to leave the jungle for the last time, Kaa tells Mowgli that "it is hard to cast the skin," but Mowgli knows he must cast the skin of his old life in order to grow a new one. Kaa, Baloo and Bagheera sing for Mowgli in "The Outsong", a poem and the ending of "The Spring Running".

Kaa appears in the 1967 animated adaptation by Walt Disney Productions. This version of Kaa is recast as an antagonist, as Walt Disney felt audiences would not sympathize with a snake character. The voice of Kaa is provided by Sterling Holloway.

Kaa notices Mowgli in a tree one night and, rather than a serpentine dance, uses his hypnotic eyes to lull Mowgli into a deep sleep. Kaa nearly eats Mowgli before Bagheera awakens nearby, notices him, and slaps him, awakening Mowgli. Kaa retaliates by hypnotizing Bagheera, though Mowgli pushes Kaa out of the tree, making him unravel violently. Kaa encounters Mowgli again later in the film and once again, hypnotizes him, this time using his song, "Trust in Me", to lull him into a deep trance, though he must hide him when Shere Khan asks him if he's seen the boy. Shere Khan makes Kaa swear to tell him when he finds Mowgli and leaves, though Mowgli eventually wakes up and pushes Kaa out of the tree again.

Kaa is based on earlier characters from Disney films who comically and unsuccessfully attempt to eat the protagonist, including Tick-Tock the crocodile from Peter Pan and the wolf from The Sword in the Stone. Holloway provided Kaa with a hissing lisp while voicing him, which the Sherman Brothers incorporated into Kaa's song "Trust in Me".[1]

Kaa returns in The Jungle Book 2, now voiced by Jim Cummings and has a smaller role. Kaa again tries and fails to eat Mowgli while he and Baloo are singing "The Bare Necessities". He angrily swears that he will "never again associate with mancubs" until he discovers Mowgli's human friend Shanti. He hypnotizes her, and tries to eat her. Mowgli's adoptive brother Ranjan thwarts him, causing him to fall down a cliff. Shere Khan finds Kaa again and asks him where Mowgli is, but Kaa lies that Mowgli is heading toward the swamp.

Kaa appears in the prequel series Jungle Cubs, where he is voiced by Jim Cummings. Kaa is seen as a snakeling who is still trying to master his hypnotic abilities, though he is cowardly. He is shown as a protagonist as opposed to the 1967 film, being friendly with the other cubs.

Kaa appears in the 1994 live-action adaptation as a large Burmese Python, though most of his appearances are created using both animatronics and computer-generated imagery, though they did use an unnamed trained anaconda.

Kaa is depicted as a far more menacing predator who lives in Monkey City with King Louie, guarding the orangutan's treasure from intruders. Kaa attacks Mowgli and tries to drown him in a moat, but Mowgli wounds him with a dagger, forcing him to flee in a cloud of blood. Louie summons Kaa again after Mowgli defeats Captain Boone and Boone begins stealing treasure; Kaa scares Boone into the moat, where the stolen treasure weighs him down to the bottom. Struggling to free himself, Boone sees the skeletal remains of Kaa's past victims moments before he meets his death by the python.

Kaa appears in the 2016 remake of the 1967 film as an indian python. This version of Kaa is female and voiced by Scarlett Johansson.

As in the 1967 film, Kaa is a villain desiring to hypnotize and eat Mowgli but like the 2003 sequel Kaa has a minor role. While Mowgli is hypnotized, Kaa reveals that he came to live in the jungle after Shere Khan killed his father and Bagheera found him, then describes to him the power of the dangerous "red flower", fire. Kaa tries to devour Mowgli, but Baloo discovers her and rescues Mowgli.

Johansson described Kaa in an interview as a "window into Mowgli's past" who uses storytelling to seduce and entrap Mowgli, noting that the way Kaa moves is "very alluring" and "almost coquettish".[2] Johansson also recorded a new version of "Trust in Me" for the film, saying the song was "a strange melody. We wanted it to be a lullaby, but it has a very mysterious sound."[3]

Kaa is a fictional character from The Jungle Book stories written by Rudyard Kipling . He is a giant snake who is 30 feet long.