Filmed entirely on location in India, The Real Jungle Book follows the daily and seasonal struggles of the living characters that author Rudyard Kipling described in his 1894 collection of short stories, "The Jungle Book." Similar to the tales in Kipling's work, present-day India is still home to wolves hunting in the arid flatlands, tigers prowling the diminishing forests, elephants treading hereditary trails, pythons lying in wait, and black panthers stalking their prey.