#THE JUNGLE BOOK 1994 ANIMALS MOVIE#

MowgliРІР‚в„ўs jungle foe, the Bengal tiger Shere Khan, is the most imperiled of KiplingРІР‚в„ўs characters. The bears are also abundant in many reserves in India, he adds, РІР‚Сљwhere they are especially adapted to eating termites-and fond of honey.РІР‚Сњ Sloth bears, which are found only in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India, are currently listed as РІР‚СљvulnerableРІР‚Сњ by the IUCN, but they РІР‚Сљare quite widespread and safe in India in terms of conservation, although they are under some pressure from trade for their gallbladders,РІР‚Сњ says Ullas Karanth, director of the Wildlife Conservation SocietyРІР‚в„ўs India program.

#THE JUNGLE BOOK 1994 ANIMALS MOVIE#

And Disney's 1967 animated movie has Baloo teaching Mowgli to eat ants. But Kipling did use 19th-century naturalistsРІР‚в„ў writings while crafting the book, and one of his sources was an 1884 natural history text that notes that the common Indian sloth bear is РІР‚Сљas a rule vegetarian.РІР‚Сњ Given that sloth bears tend to sleep a lot during the day and can be found throughout India, most scholars agree that Baloo likely fits this label. РІР‚СљThe problem is that The Jungle Book is fiction, and all of KiplingРІР‚в„ўs characters are a mixture of imaginary types and real animals, so itРІР‚в„ўs impossible to know the species for sure,РІР‚Сњ says Kaori Nagai, a Kipling scholar at the University of Kent. BalooРІР‚в„ўs name, which simply means РІР‚СљbearРІР‚Сњ in Hindustani, lends no additional clues. The true identity of KiplingРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚Сљsleepy brown bearРІР‚Сњ is a bit of an enigma: BalooРІР‚в„ўs physical description in the book would suggest a sloth bear, but his diet of nuts and honey runs counter to that speciesРІР‚в„ў insect-eating preferences. He and other experts are keeping a close eye on leopard populations to see if they should revise the cat's conservation status, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), from РІР‚Сљnear threatenedРІР‚Сњ to РІР‚Сљvulnerable.РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљTheyРІР‚в„ўre being killed more and taken into captivity more-itРІР‚в„ўs really becoming a problem,РІР‚Сњ says Alan Rabinowitz, CEO of Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization. They are also hunted for the illegal wildlife trade, including for use in traditional Chinese medicine. ThatРІР‚в„ўs likely because leopards can live in places with suboptimal habitat, including on the fringes of cities, where they are more likely to come into contact with people. Leopards have the largest distribution of any wild cat in the world, but they are also the most persecuted. Kipling acknowledges this when he describes Bagheera as РІР‚Сљinky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk.РІР‚Сњ BagheeraР”В«lack panthers like Bagheera are not a distinct species, but are simply color variants of the spotted leopards found in Asia and Africa and the jaguars found in South America.

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