The Jungle Book

- Season 2

(2012)

Bagheera and Baloo have no interest in the extremely noisy annual peacocks gathering, but Mowgli can't resists checking it out. On the way, he befriends and take sunder his wing a clumsy white one, Pavo, who risks being chased by Shere Kahn as the festival dance competition is his best chance to win his dream mate.

Baloo is completely distracted by a female bear and loses interest in the gang. Mowgli discovers that she's in leagues with Shere Kahn, who promised her a food-rich territory to dispose of his strongest protector.

Baloo and Bagheera are shocked when Mowgli brings 'home' a tiger cub which got separated from its mother, who will come looking, but Shere Kahn must be expected to kill any tiger intruding his territory. So the pair goes fetch the mother, while Mowgli tries to keep the cub safe, but they end up in a dangerous area and both adult tigers arrive there.

Running for Shere Khan on Bagheera's back, Mowgli seems to fall to his death, but actually landed on a ledge. Seeing everyone assumes him death and a rumor even spreads that his ghost was seen, Mowgli decides to take advantage and scare Shere Kahn into publicly making humiliating apologies, but sharp feline senses soon realize the truth.

Playing with his wolf mates, Mowgli encounters a couple of turtles, who fear they won't make it to attend the hatching of their eggs. Mowgli offers to help the get there, even if it's an island in the giant crocodile Jakala's stream, but that proves exhausting in logistics on land and terribly dangerous in the water.

Mowgli looses everybody's confidence, however strongly he denies being a thief, when food is found time and time again in his tree nest. Akela banishes him, but the thefts were committed to isolate him on Shere Kahn's command by Tabaqui, who now lures him to a trap.

When Baloo is climbing a mango tree and Darzi distracts him, he lands in a spiky bush and needs honey to cure his nose, so Mowgli and Bagheera go to get some. When they find Icky, she warns them a got it from someone with a bad temper and Rikki Tikki helps them.

Watching the cranes' annual migration, Mowgli gets inspired to learn how to fly and obsessed, again to Bgheera and Balu's horror, with following them. The apes king, insulted by a dare, orders his horde to sabotage the flight experiments by fruit bombardment. Shere Kahn hopes his most elusive potential prey will practically fall into his mouth.

Mowgli wins races against his wolves pack mates too easily but swinging vines is contested as cheating, so the pups switch to truth or dare. The wolves regret when Mowgli sets out to take the dare uttered in jest: stealing one of Shere Kahn's whiskers. After practicing on poor Bagheera, he tries for real, but Tabaqui overheard, warned the tiger and lures Bagheera's gang away, so they can't help Mowgli who walks into a trap.

Mowgli makes friends with Rana, a strong, intemperate warthog, who is constantly pestered by the monkeys. Trading tricks, the pair ends up in their own trap pit. The only way out is ramming a passage to the underground palace ruins basement. Tabaqui observed and informed Shere Kahn, who follows them inside.

Mowgli amuses Baloo and Bagheera by imitating the hothead monkey king Masha's temper, but he lacks any sense of humor and swears revenge. The monkeys ultimately capture Mowgli and incarcerate him in a temple ruin cage. Tricks and a rescue attempt by Bagheera and Baloo yields short escapes, but they all end up caged together. Luckily, the rude king injured giant serpent Kaa, who slithers to revenge.

When Kala takes over the Cold Lair, the monkeys takes over Mowgli's home and locks Baloo and Bagheera. Mowgli decides to drive Kala away with help from Darzi, however they fail and helps Masha to get the monkeys into battle.

The jungle wildlife believes the sun will only keep shining on its forest if a ritual dance is performed from time to time by the elephants. It's time again, but their chief, colonel Hathi, can't remember the paces. Mowgli sets out to find and fetch the centennial turtles, the only creatures who witnessed the previous ritual performance and can teach Hathi the dance. Tabaqui tips off Shere Kahn, who decides to hunt Mowgli, despite his vital mission.

During a fight with giant crocodile Chakala, over who gets to devour Mowgli, Shere Kahn falls on his head. The result is amnesia, turning the majestic hunter back into a frightened, helpless kitten. Although his enemies, Mowgli, Bagheera and Baloo decide to watch over him until his lethal memory returns.

Swinging trough the trees, Mowgli causes a birds nest to crash, but saves the eggs. He promises to mind them while the parents build a new test, but giant serpent Kaa soon smells his favorite, fresh eggs, and starts chasing Mowgli. An egg-shaped pebbles ploy should lure the snake to an abandoned eagle's nest.

Mowgli's climbing antics land him in the river, thus floating to an island, where he finds a scared, lost yearling deer, whose father meets Bagheera and Baloo, who followed the river after Mowgli. Mowgli promises to get the yearling home, but they are chased by evil panther Kala and the deer is suffering the blinding effects of a poisonous herb it ate.

Seemingly helping the wolves against Shere Kahn, his jackal cahoot Tabaqui wins Ajela's confidence. Only Mowgli smells a rat, especially when the traitor inquires about the pack's secret meat stash.

Mowgli befriends one of colonel Hathi's juvenile trainee elephants, who fears to be denied admission to the marching troop if he fails the ritual trumpeting test, that full moon evening. Besides training loudness, they must contend with the river's giant crocodile Chakala, which is after Mowgli too. Mowgli's peril carries an unhoped-for boon.

Collecting berries with Mowgli, Bagheera ventures into evil kin Kala's territory, has to fight him off and incurs a nasty paw wound. Baloo knows a single remedy: black maggots from the creepy marsh in Kala's territory, which also have a paralyzing effect. Mowgli sets out to collect them with Darzi, who can find them. Worried, Bagheera limps after them.

Playing with Baloo's spectacles, Mowgli drops them, and Tabaqui gets hold of them, eager to tell Shere Kahn the knave's strongest protector is blinded. Bagheera helps Baloo, whom the rascal dared not tell, looking in vain. Mowgli is soon lured to Shere Kahn's lair, where a struggle ensues for his life and the bear's glasses.

Python Kaa has a bad case of hiccups and blames Mowgli, whose careless play caused him to fall too badly. Baloo knows a cure, a rare blue flower, which the rascal promises the serpent to help collect from the palace ruins. The langur monkeys however put up a fight, and a royal cobra also lurks around.

Cocky, playful Mowgli can't resist a dare from Tabaqui to test who's most agile in running and jumping. However, it's all a trap to make him lap into a deep pit, to await Shere Kahn as a late lunch. The knave however escapes, chased by Tabaqui, who falls, drifts into crocodile Jakala's river tract and needs rescuing.

Hearing Hathi's elephant family, which happily prepared a feast to welcome visiting family, worry if their kin got lost on the way, Mowgli volunteers to go look. He finds the visitors wandered off i to the marsh, where the parents can't enter to retrieve their kid, who risks being eaten by giant crocodile Jakala.

Hearing Baloo, whose birthday is coming up, loves a rare kind of bananas over all, Mowgli sets out to go fetch some. Alas, they only grow in Shere Kahn's jealously guarded home territory, and Tabaqui heard of the plan, so the tiger is warned and they set a trap. Baloo warned against the enterprise and comes after Mowgli.

Old Akela assembles the wolves to start the annual buffalo hunt for the pack's winter supply. He will lead a team, Mowgli the other, to prove himself a true wolf. Jealous, the eldest other wolf, on Mowgli's team, who feels entitled to lead, sabotages it and seizes power, but is even less successful hunting down the elusive white buffalo.

While Mowgli accompanies Baloo collecting blueberries, he bumps upon colorful glutton bird Rangoo, who collected a pile of them, to offer as annual present to the passing cranes. Monkey queen Masha arrives and thinks up a lie to lure Ranoo away, so the langurs can feats on her berries. Mowgli feels somehow guilty and promises to make up to the cranes, who arrive before he can, but appreciate the glide he and Baloo 'discovered' accidentally, and proves most useful to get rid of Shere Kahn and Tabaqui.

Akela collapses, ill, but tells his wolves pack the only cure is in the temple of the wolf, so they set out there. Mowgli wants to come, but is almost scared off by Phaona, who keeps attempting to lead either Mowgli or the other expedition wolves on fatal roads, so he can return as Ajela's successor. Mowgli sees trough and counters each ploy in turn.

Akela is too weak to enter the temple, Phaona insists to stay with him but quickly outsmarts Darzi, whom Mowgli left to watch him, and follows the rest of the pack inside. Phaona locks Mowgli and the other expedition wolves in and returns home to claim Akela and the others perished, so he becomes Akela's successor. Mowgli however manages to escape, bring Akela the healing water and lead the pack home.

Mowgli and Phaona become stranded on a waterfall when avoiding Shere Khan and Jacala. Mowgli and Shere Khan make surprising gestures towards one another when they are in trouble.

When Icky's berries have been stolen, Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera decides to guard them. But Baloo has took them, sleepwalking, Baloo faces a lot of danger, even he heads for the Cold Lair.

Panics strikes the jungle wildlife when it's noticed hunters fail to respect harvest restrictions, so senior elephant Hathi presides over a general refuge into the secret valley. After it's closed up with a bolder, his own kids are found missing, having ventured outside. Mowgli leaves to go after the mischievous pair. Tabaqui informs Shere Kahn, who believes his time has come to hunt down the man child without his protectors.

When Mowgli and Baloo are searching flowers, Mowgli takes one which makes him blind and Tabaqui knows about this. While Baloo is finding herbs, Tabaqui lures Bagheera to a trap, Mowgli finds himself with Shere Khan. Luckily, Darzi is his eyes while Mowgli's blind.

Disregarding Baloo's warning when they find a piece of amber, which according to jungle legend renders invincible, Mowgli keeps it. Tabaqui finds out, steals the amber and brigs it to Shere Kahn, who proclaims himself absolute king and demands his subjects prove their loyalty by offering him the man-child. Bagheera and Baloo must prevent their fellow jungle dwellers doing so while Mowgli tries to steal the amber back and throw it in the cascade.

A kite drifts from the human village into the jungle. Mowgli finds it and has great fun finding out how to fly it. His mongoose friend Rikki-Tikki-Tavi however gets caught in its ropes and dies a million deaths flying high, out of control. Mowgli runs after the kite, which gets loose after an encounter with the crocodile Chakala and becomes an easy target for the eagle. Mowgli promises to save his friend if he jumps off while drifting over a high cliff, which is the home of killer bees.

Disregarding Baloo's warnings, Mowgli plays in a dangerous flower bed, and is temporarily blinded by its poisonous blooms. While Baloo seeks medicinal herbs, Bagheera perches the rascal safely in a high tree, but the cheeky imp sneaks off, only to run into trouble with Shere Khan, who was cued by Tabaqui. Bagheera rushed to the rescue but is lured into a pit while the tiger finds his prey, in time for a painful finale.

Shere Khan's mighty voice crushes to mouse-like while he faces monkey queen Masha, who now believes to have magical power and claims the throne of the jungle cued by turncoat Tabaqui. Mowgli reports to Baloo that the tiger, who can't roar anymore, is agreeing to leave the jungle and hand over power. The bear realizes that honey can cure the tiger's soar throat, but Tabaqui captures him and Mowgli when they attempt to deliver the medicine, so they must escape from the temple cage to restore the rightful ruler.

Roaming in the jungle, Mowgli collides with a crane, whom he saves from being eaten by crocodile Chakala, but who looses the feathers on one wing, so he's no longer able to fly to his mates' gathering at the lake. Mowgli insists to accompany it, reaches the lake safely, but is then exhausted and far from home, so the other cranes return the favor by giving him a sky ride.

Senior elephant Hathi grudgingly allows his kids, himself tempted by a generous bet with Baloo, to try their hand at his traditional task in preparation for the troop's annual 'birth ceremony', which he presides over: gathering a perfect mango. Mowgli eagerly helps the rascally pair, but the monkeys have ravaged all mango trees, except the one near Shere Kahn's cave layer. Mowgli tries to sneak by, disguising themselves as trees.

Akela presides over the wolf pack's Howling Moon ceremony, but even Mowgli's junior wolf friends laughed at his pitiful, all to human howling. Told be jealous, ambitious Phaona, failure to howl well there means expulsion, Mowgli resolves to take his advice and leave the jungle already on his own. But Tabaqui puts Shere Kahn on the trio's tail, and Mowgli attempt to escape into a ruin leaves his wolf mates trapped. Mowgli must now howl-alert Akela's troop for their lives.

When Mowgli finds a shell during crane migration, he makes the crane sound and one of them mistakes who it was, then Jacala tries eat her when Mowgli saves the crane, but the crane is flightless when Tabaqui knows about it.

While the tigress is sick, Mowgli promises to babysit its cub, but while he sleeps it wanders out of the cave and gets spooked, so it's soon lost. Mowgli rushes to find and return it, but Shere Khan and Tabaqui are determined to seize the opportunity to eliminate the tiger's rivals and the troublesome man-child. When a 'falling star' crashes into the jungle near Shere Kahn's lair, its crater becomes the site and trap for a scary confrontation.

Mowgli is amused by the clumsy battle for tree fruits between Masha's langur monkeys and Rana, whose dizzy 'dance' he imitates as a prank, but the warthog is furious and mortified when the Banderlog monkeys teach it to all jungle animals. Mowgli rushes to appease his ill-tempered friend, assisted by a single remorseful monkey, but Shere Khan and Tabaqui give chase to the temple ruin, where the primates get caught. Rana and the monkeys team up with Mowglu to deal with the predators, a porcupine and prickly ants.

When Heetah says Appu will lose the game Hide and Seek, he hides someone when they'll never find him. When Mowgli and Heetah can't find Appu they think he's hiding in the jungle and Shere Khan looks for him, but someone is creeping up on them.

Mowgli is startled to find that Bagheera is too afraid of water to jump in, even when Ballo is stuck in mud while Chakala approaches. Mowgli disposes of the crocodile, who is carried away by a log, then tries giving Bagheera swimming lessons with Baloo.

Tired of Shere Kahn's bullying, jackal Tabaqui decides after a vicious scolding to actually stay away. Mowgli makes fun of the jackal, who never actually hunted before, and agrees to teach him how. Mowgli however can't make it easy or attractive for Tabaqui, who is nearly eaten by crocodile Chakala, and decides to resume his tiger flunky role, but is shocked to see the porcupine Ikii seems to have taken his place, so he plans to grease his return by delivering Mowgli.

White peacock Pavo, his colored counterpart, a crane and a fourth bird bicker endlessly which is the most beautiful, and agree to decide the matter by beauty pageant, for which reluctant Mowgli is chosen as sole judge. After jackal Tabaqui's only bone in days is stolen by a Banderlog monkey, he lurks around hoping to catch at least one contestant, only to suffer one painful failure after another bruising. Mowgli gets cut off when Tabaqui finally captures the quartet, only to end up caught in the rope and carried in the air until they are all about to be eaten by ...

Mowgli overhears Baloo, who found their old map, reminisce with Akela about their youthful adventure in the valley of the giants. Mowgli convinces wolf mate Bala to try themselves, buy Shere Kahn follows them. Darzi alerts Bagheera and Baloo, who lean from Hathi that the rascals ventured on the dangerous path, which leads into a dinosaur graveyard, but Mowgli must find his own way to save their naughty necks.

Mowgli saves Darzi from Shere Kahn by knocking the tiger out with a well-aimed coconut, but the silly bird thinks he did it, and as Baloo feared becomes crazily overconfident. Mowgli follows 'superbird' who comes to the rescue of any animal in danger, but thus both of them become an easy prey for Shere Khan when Tabaqui tips him off and are pinned down in a ruin.

Mowgli accepts to prove to Baloo that he has learn from all the bear's wise lessons, to become 'junglewise'. Mowgli must prove his knowledge of useful plants and other medicine, but hungry Shere Kahn and Tabaqui follow him. Mowgli must turn his skill into a defensive weapon.

When Baloo gets one of his treasures stolen by Shere Khan, Mowgli and Bagheera look for it, but the treasure is in Khan's territory. When he hears about it, he wants Mowgli to be next of Baloo's stolen treasure's.

While the elephants prepare for their favorite annual spring parade, commander Hathi's calves sneaked off to play with his pace-stick. When Mowgli urges them it's time to return home, it breaks. Mowgli promises to fetch another baton from the black cobra-guarded sacred tree, Appu insists to come along. Shere Kahn and Tabaqui follow them, hoping for two super-size meals. Mowgli must get a stick and return safely, in time for that evening's ceremony.

While Baloo chases glutton bird Rangoo for a huge ripe mango, it accidentally falls and the emerald, offered as birthday present to monkey queen Masha by the black cobra which guards the temple ruin treasure, gets caught in it. Baloo is kept hostage, forced to massage the monkey tyrant, while Mowgli follows the bird to return the gem as ransom for his bear friend. Mowgli succeeds and the pair of them even gets to enjoy the lavishly fruit-supplied party.