“Look for the bare necessities. The simple bare necessities.”
I was just a child when I first sang along with Baloo and Mowgli in the 1967 Disney adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book; a wonderful movie (and even better novel), set in the forests of India and full of memorable songs and colourful characters.
I loved King Louie, the jazz-playing orangutan, and Bagheera, the benevolent panther. But it was Shere Khan, the tiger that hated humans but loved to eat, who enthralled me most.
To this day, I still view tigers with a mixed bag of
