Kotick is the young seal protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book story “The White Seal.”
The story follows Kotick after he witnesses seals being clubbed by hunters on the Pribilof Islands. Determined to find a safer home for his kind, he travels widely and searches for a beach where seals will not be hunted.
Kotick eventually discovers a hidden refuge and persuades other seals to follow him there. The story combines adventure with a conservation-minded theme, although it is presented as literary fiction rather than a zoological account.
“The White Seal” is separate from the Mowgli stories that dominate many adaptations of The Jungle Book. Kipling included it in the 1894 collection, and its central character is a northern fur seal, not a human child or mongoose.