Father Wolf is a fictional wolf character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The JungleBook and The Second JungleBook.
In the first story, "Mowgli's Brothers", Father Wolf investigates a noise outside the cave den where his mate Raksha (Mother Wolf) is suckling her cubs.
In the books, his personal name is never given; Rama is instead the name of a buffalo in the human village that Mowgli briefly joins.
Lost by his parents in the Indian jungle, a human baby is adopted by the wolves Mother (Raksha) and Father Wolf, who call him "Mowgli the Frog" because of his furlessness.
Mowgli runs back to the jungle but soon learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband, so he rescues them and sends elephants and buffalo to trample the village to the ground.
All of the film and comic book adaptaions depict Mowgli wearing a loincloth or other one-piece garment, but in the original stories, at least while he is living apart from humanity, he is naked.
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