Tabaqui

"Shere Khan, the great one, has changed his hunting grounds, or so he has told me." -Tabaqui

Tabaqui is a jackal and Shere Khan's sidekick in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, thus making him a minor antagonist. He is a scavenger who is despised by the wolves and has a tendancy to fawn on Shere Khan and greatly hates being insulted. However, he is very cowardly and usually prefers flee to fight. He is also known to be a liar, so Mowgli is often imformed 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, bu he was deleted. Though he does not appear in the 1994 live action remake, "Tabaqui" is a name for one of William Boone's Men. 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.