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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self (Queen Latifah). Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a story about a brave mongoose staying true to his heritage and fighting cobras.
The Rikki-Tikki-Tavi story and movie have much in common, but there are also many differences. The characters acted slightly different in the story than in the movie. The person who said Rikki might not have been dead in the story was different from in the movie. In the movie, it was the father who had said Rikki was not dead. However, in the story, it was the mother who said Rikki was not dead. In the story and movie Nagaina acts differently. In the story, Nagaina begs for her cobra egg back. In the movie, she just tells Rikki to give it back to her before side stepping him

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