Baloo is a character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. In the film, he is portrayed by an American black bear rather than a sloth bear and, like all the other animals featured, does not speak.
He is based on the character of the same name from the original stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Role in the film[]
Baloo first meets Mowgli as a bear cub when he finds him trapped inside a broken log. Mowgli frees him and they become fast friends.
Years later, Baloo has grown into an adult bear and is seen running with an adult Mowgli and his adult pet wolf, Grey Brother. He is later seen eating honey out of an overturned beehive. Later, when Mowgli is reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Kitty Brydon, Baloo appears and playfully wrestles with Mowgli when the latter pretends to save her life. After scaring off a few British soldiers who were harassing Mowgli, and whom one of them accidentally shot Mowgli on the arm, Baloo is seen lying down with Mowgli and Grey Brother while he and Grey Brother are being caressed by Mowgli.
A few days later, after Mowgli has learned the ways of men and re-entered civilization thanks to Kitty and Dr. Julius Plumford, Baloo is seen being caressed and introduced to Kitty by Mowgli along with all the rest of Mowgli's jungle animal friends. Baloo and the other animals watch as Kitty teaches Mowgli some dancing lessons, much to their amusement.
In a later tussle against soldiers working for Captain William Boone, the main villain, Baloo is shot and left for dead, but Mowgli finds him and locates Dr. Julius Plumford to save his life.
In the final scene, after Boone's defeat, Dr. Plumford is revealed to have successfully healed Baloo and is seen standing with the bear beside a waterfall.
See also[]
- Baloo
- Baloo (TaleSpin)
- Baloo (The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story)
- Baloo (The Jungle Book 2016)
