Then Shere Khan roared: “Bah! What have we to do with this toothless fool? He is doomed to die! It is the man-cub who has lived too long. Free People, he was my meat from the first. Give him to me. I am weary of this man-wolf folly. . . . He is a man, a man’s child, and from the marrow of my bones I hate him!” Shere Khan despises men. Shere Khan is hungry. Shere Khan is fearful that the wolf pack will turn against him. Shere Khan is a powerful and feared hunter.