His eyes are yellow and fill with concentric circles of blue, yellow and purple when using hypnosis. While his exact size is unknown, in the original book he is described as more than 30ft long. Kaa is an Indian python that has grown to be extremely long for a member of his species. This results in his interactions with the man-cub to often end in humiliation to some degree. He can be clumsy and easily sidetracked from his primary objective: to hypnotize and eat Mowgli. Although he only hypnotized Mowgli when he was sure Bagheera was too sleepy to notice him, it was his own cockiness that woke the panther and made him lose his supper. Though dangerous, manipulative and cunning, Kaa is not without his faults. Kaa has even admitted to himself that he is sympathetic towards Mowgli to a certain extent, before remembering his own intentions to make a meal out of the boy. Although powerful enough to choke the life out of his victims, he prefers to swallow them alive and whole unable to feel pain or fear. Nevertheless, Kaa seems to insist on giving his victims a merciful end as he hypnotizes them into a state of bliss or sleep before eating them. He playfully tugged at Mowgli's wrists and ankles to stop him from escaping, and later savoured the time before the kill when he hypnotized the man-cub and made him sleepwalk over his body.

He enjoys teasing and playing with his food, hypnotized or not. He displayed even more sadism towards Shanti as he did not only gloat over her helplessness, but also outright revealed to her that he intended to eat her knowing she was unable to do anything about it. Kaa appears to be playfully sadistic, emphasized by how he gloats over Mowgli's helpless situation as he prepared to devour him. Furthermore, he is perfectly willing to kill those who get in the way of his meals, as seen when he hypnotized and almost harmed Bagheera. However, his later goal to eat the man-cub was mainly driven out of spite, swearing revenge on the boy after his first attempt to eat Mowgli ended in humiliating defeat. His first attempt to devour Mowgli was a casual and opportunistic means to eat and survive. While not inherently malevolent, Kaa is still a fairly villainous character.

The two beasts are often at odds, though Shere Khan views Kaa as an 'eyes and ears' of the jungle, relying on him to assist his search for Mowgli at one point in the film. Kaa holds a disliking for Khan, seeing him as a hypocrite and believing the act of killing for pleasure-as opposed to survival-to be dishonorable. Such fear, however, does not resonate with the unofficial ruler of the jungle, Shere Khan the tiger. This is evidenced when the usually composed and fearless Bagheera was visibly terrified and pleaded with him when the panther stopped him from eating Mowgli. A powerful and dangerous ability, Kaa is a feared inhabitant of the jungle. He furthers this by the use of his iconic ability to hypnotize his prey with his eyes, rendering them enchanted and under his command. He speaks with a soft, often entrancing tone to either lure his victims into a weary, dreamlike state or manipulate them into bestowing their trust, only to devour them unexpectedly. Kaa is a sly, devious Indian Rock Python. You can't trust anyone!” ―Kaa using Mowgli's words against him Sterling Holloway, Kaa's voice actor, also brought his own essence to the character by using a lisped voice. Due to the popularity of the character among the developers, he was given another scene and his own song ('Trust in Me', a recycled and revised version of ' The Land of Sand', a scrapped song from 1964's Mary Poppins), this time animated by Milt Kahl. He was animated by Frank Thomas in his entrance appearance where he first met Mowgli and nearly ate him. When the characters were adapted in the film, Walt Disney did not like the idea of a benevolent snake and so Kaa was given an antagonistic role that would serve as one of the many reasons why Mowgli must leave the jungle. In Kipling's books, Kaa was Mowgli's wise mentor, akin to Baloo and Bagheera, and was very protective of him. 3.1 Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994).

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