In Rudyard Kipling's short story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" a young English boy named Teddy finds Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the mongoose, after a storm. Rikki-Tikki goes to live with Teddy and his family in their house in India, where Rikki-Tikki protects them from a cobra couple. The scientific name for Indian cobras is Naja naja, which is similar to the names of the two cobras in the story, Nag and Nagaina. Cobras are generally about four to seven feet in length and range from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka to Malaysia and Southeast Asia. In this story, the Indian cobras, Nag and Nagaina are highly feared by the other animals except for Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Mongooses are one of few animals who will stand up to cobras and can actually kill them, which is what Rikki-Tikki-Tavi does.
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