Baloo

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Baloo
The Jungle Book character
Baloo in the 1895 edition of The Second Jungle Book
First appearance	"Mowgli's Brothers"
Last appearance	The spring Running
Created by	Rudyard Kipling
In-universe information
Species	Sloth Bear (described as a Brown bear in the book)
Gender	Male

Baloo (from Hindi: भालू Urdu: بھالو 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, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger, and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of The Jungle Book stories.