Tabaqui Jackal

Tabaqui is a jackal and Shere-Khan's sidekick in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, thus making him the secondary antagonist, replacing Kaa in some versions. He is a scavenger who is despised by the wolves and has a tendency to fawn on Shere-Khan and greatly hates being insulted. However, he is very cowardly and usually prefers flee to flight. He is also known to be a liar, so Mowgli is often informed by Bagheera and Baloo that Tabaqui is not to be trusted. He was originally to appear with his master and Kaa the python as a minor antagonist and voiced by James MacDonald, but he was deleted. Though he does not appear in the 1994 live action remake, "Tabaqui" is a name for one of the human villains. Tabaqui, however, does appear in other animated film and TV adaptations of The Jungle Book, but in most of them, he appears as a hyena, not a jackal. In Chuck Jones' made-for-TV special adaptation of the book, the way Tabaqui is animated gives him a striking resemblance to Wile E. Coyote. Since he is a jackal and a hyena, I call him Tabaqui the Jackyena.