A younger Akela appears in an episode of the prequel cartoon Jungle Cubs, looking at the animal characters in their youth (voiced by Rob Paulsen). 
Acknowledging Shere Khan on their own, they decide to send Mowgli away, with Bagheera volunteering to take Mowgli back to the man-village.
In the animated 1967 Disney adaptation, Akela (voiced by John Abbott) only has a brief role at the beginning of the film, when the council of wolves meet after Shere Khan's return to the jungle to decide what to do about Mowgli's future. Akela did this for the love of Mowgli and his death is a major factor in Mowgli's decision to finally return to human society at the age of 17. Some years later, when Mowgli has been rejected by human society and the pack is threatened with extinction by a rampaging pack of dholes, Akela joins the battle and fights to the death, finally dying in Mowgli's company ("Red Dog", in The Second Jungle Book). During this period Akela helps Mowgli to kill Shere Khan with the aid of the human village's water buffalo herd. Phao becomes the new pack leader, Mowgli returns to human society, at least for a time, and Akela hunts alone. The death of Akela after his battle with the dholes, as illustrated in page 280 of the 1895 edition of The Two Jungle Books by Rudyard KiplingĪfter Shere Khan's departure the remaining wolves beg Akela to stay, but he refuses to remain pack leader and decides to hunt alone. Īkela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and colour 
He is large and grey and leads the pack by virtue of his strength and cunning. This is shown by his recurring references to the honour of the pack. Kipling portrays Akela with the character of an English gentleman. It is at such a meeting that the pack adopts the lost child Mowgli and Akela becomes one of Mowgli's mentors.Īkelā means "single or solitary" in Hindi. He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves and presides over the pack's council meetings. Akela as depicted on the frontispiece of The Two Jungle Books, published in 1895.Īkela ( Akelā also called The Lone Wolf or Big Wolf) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895).
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