Baloo

Baloo
The Jungle Book character
Baloo in the 1895 edition of The Second Jungle Book
First appearance"Mowgli's Brothers"
Last appearanceThe spring Running
Created byRudyard Kipling
In-universe information
SpeciesSloth Bear/Baluchistan Bear (described as a Brown bear in the book)
GenderMale

Baloo (from Hindi: भालू bhālū "bear")[1] is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book from 1894 and The Second Jungle Book from 1895. Baloo, a sloth bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack. His most challenging pupil is the "man-cub" Mowgli.[2] Baloo and Bagheera, the panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan, the tiger, and endeavour to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of The Jungle Book stories.

  1. ^ "Hindi Translation of "bear" | Collins English-Hindi Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. ^ Kipling, Rudyard (1987). The Jungle Book. Penguin. ISBN 0140432825.