4 Times Disney Got The Science Right (And 4 Times It Didn't)

3. Jungle Book: ...Apart From The Monkeys

All that said, there's little explanation as to how King Louie the orangutan came to be in the middle of the Indian jungle. Orangutans are non-swimmers, so making his way over from his island home in Indonesia would have been no mean feat. This seems to be an accuracy of Disney's own creation, as King Louie, nor any other orangutan, appear in the original Rudyard Kipling stories They also fall into the trap of the "snake hypnosis" myth that still proliferates as Kaa captures Mowgli. It's thought that the misconception that snakes are able to hypnotise their prey comes from a combination of their lidless eyes and the the defense mechanisms of their prey causing them to completely freeze up (in the animal kingdom, stillness often equals invisibility), making it look as though the snake is exerting a power over them.