The Jungle Book Official US Teaser Trailer - april 2016

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http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Baloo 
 
Baloo appears in the live-action 2016 film, voiced by Bill Murray. In this version, he is depicted as a Himalayan Brown Bear (though in the film he is clearly stated to be a Sloth Bear by Bagheera).
 
Baloo is the first to attack the tiger, and fights bravely and fiercely until he is injured too much to fight any longer. 
 
Walt Disney was known to take a lot of liberties when taking a book and transforming it into a "Disney Story." In Kipling's book, Baloo's species was never told. He was simply referred to as a "sleepy brown bear." In the animated Disney film, Baloo was depicted as a sloth bear.  In the 2016 movie, a Himalayan brown bear was used as the model for Baloo. However, Bagheera calls him a sloth bear. 
I dug out my old 1950 edition of 'The Jungle Book' yesterday. In 'Kaa's Hunting' Bagheera informs the 30 foot-long python that the Bandar-log had called him a "Footless, yellow earthworm," ( a sarcastic insult ). In 'Mowgli's Brothers' ... Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose up on his hind quarters and grunted.
In 'Kaa's Hunting, ... It was in the days when Baloo was teaching him the Law of the Jungle. The big, serious, old brown bear was delighted to have so quick a pupil... and again in Kaa's Hunting ... "Fool that I am! Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am," 
  
  

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