Akela is a minor character in the 1967 Disney animated feature film The Jungle Book. He is the leader of the wolf pack that came to adopt Mowgli, the man-cub. Akela, like the other wolves, is seen at the beginning of the film. Though he is glad at how content Mowgli is with jungle life, he knows as well as the rest of the wolves that he will eventually have to go back to his own kind once he is able to take care of himself. That day finally comes one night when the pack learns that Shere…
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