Bagheera

Bagheera ( / Baghīrā) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the "man-cub" Mowgli. The word bagheera is Hindi for panther or leopard, although the root word bagh means any form of panthera and is nowadays mostly used to refer to the Royal Bengal tiger.

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Character.series: The Jungle Book
Character.name: Bagheera
Character.image: KiplingIllustrationofBagheera.jpg
Character.caption: Bagheera (on the tree) with Mowgli and Baloo (Lockwood Kipling art)
Character.first: The Jungle Book (1967)
Character.last: "The Spring Running"
Character.gender: Male
Character.relatives: Yusaf (ex-owner), Ameena (friend) and Ghargisht
Character.creator: Rudyard Kipling

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Commons category: Bagheera
name in native language: Bagheera

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Character history
Disney adaptations
1967 animated film
1994 live-action film
1998 live-action film
2016 live-action/CGI hybrid film
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==Character history== Born in captivity in the menagerie of the Raja of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Bagheera begins to plan for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough, he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes into the jungle, where his cunning nature wins him the respect of all its other inhabitants, except for Shere Khan the Tiger. Bagheera reveals all this to Mowgli later. None but Mowgli ever learn that Bagheera once wore a collar and chain, explaining the cat's special insight concerning men. Because he had learned the ways of men, he was also more loving to the abandoned human child who came to be under his care and protection.