Colonel Hathi

Colonel Hathi and the Jungle Patrol are 3 supporting characters in The Jungle Book. Colonel Hathi is the main leader of the Jungle Patrol. He runs them in the style of a military squadron making them do military drills all over the jungle while singing a military type song called Colonel Hathi's March. His strict orders and consant marching makes most members wish "a tranfer to another herd". He and the patrol are first seen marching past Mowgli and Bagheera singing. Mowgli spots another elephant who is Hathi's son Hathi Jr. Curious Mowgli asks what he is doing and for a while Mowgli joins in but does not understand Hathi's military jargon. After inspection Hathi nor the Jungle Patrol are not seen again.

After a while they return and irritate Shere Khan when they sing thier song again.After some persuasion Hathi finally leads a search party to search for Mowgli. After this they are not seen again.

They are later seen briefly in the sequel where they try to stop Baloo from entering the Man Village.

Hathi also appears in the film's prequel TV series Jungle Cubs where he is shown as a child and hanging out with Baloo, Bagheera, Louie and was also friends with Shere Khan and Kaa. The series also shows how he met Winifred.

Trivia

 * Besides Winifred there appears to be no other female elephants involved with the Jungle Patrol and aside from Hathi's son there appears to be no other children involved either