These ideas are conveyed through the perspective of a wolf, and the laws a wolf should follow in the jungle. It delves into the ideas of necessity, and that in order to survive, one must know where they fit into the food chain, in order not to anger those above you, yet not be unnecessarily cruel to those below you. It is a poem about knowing ones place, and respecting both those above and below you. Rudyard Kiplings вЂњThe Law of the JungleвЂќ is a poem about coexistence and an understanding between all things. Now these are the laws of the jungle, and many and mighty are they Д«ut the head and the hoof of the law and the haunch and the hump is-Obey!' In all that the law leaveth open the word of the head wolf is law. He is judged by the council alone.Д«ecause of his age and his cunning, because of his gripe and his paw, From all of his pack he may claimДЇull gorge when the killer has eaten and none may refuse him the same.Д¬ave right is the right of the father, to hunt by himself for his own One haunch of each kill for her litter, and none may deny her the same.Д¬ub right is the right of the yearling. He may do what he will,Д«ut, till he is given permission, the pack may not eat of that kill. The kill of the wolf is the meat of the wolf.

Ye must eat where it lies ДЄnd no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies. The kill of the pack is the meat of the pack. Pack-right is the right of the meanest so leave him the head and the hide. If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride,

Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need and ye can Д«ut kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill man. Lest ye frighten the deer from the crop and thy brothers go empty away. If ye kill before midnight be silent and wake not the woods with your bay, The council shall send him a message, and so he shall change it again. The lair of the wolf is his refuge, but where he has digged it too plain, Not even the head wolf may enter, not even the council may come. The lair of the wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home, Lest others take part in the quarrel and the pack is diminished by war. When ye fight with a wolf of the pack ye must fight him alone and afar, Lie down till the leaders have spoken it may be fair words shall prevail. When pack meets with pack in the jungle, and neither will go from the trail, Keep peace with the lords of the jungle, the tiger, the panther, the bear ДЄnd trouble not Hathi the Silent, and mock not the boar in his lair. Remember the wolf is a hunter-go forth and get food of thy own. The jackal may follow the tiger, but, cub, when thy whiskers are grown, Wash daily from nose tip to tail tip drink deeply, but never too deep ДЄnd remember the night is for hunting and forget not the day is for sleep. 'NOW this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky,ДЄnd the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.ДЄs the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law runneth forward and back ДЇor the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

Law of the jungle poem