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The Jungle Book Official US Teaser Trailer - april 2016
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 (04-21-2016, 10:28 PM)brotherbear Wrote: That's not the jungle book (movie) official page nor is baloo a brown bear in this version of the movie. I suggest you go watch it and see for your self. Of course not, but same can be said for the wolves, they are not indian. "He is described in Kipling's work as "the sleepy brown bear". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his knowledge of Indian fauna, used the Hindi word "Bhalu" for several bear species, though Daniel Karlin, who edited the Penguin reissue of The Jungle Book in 1989, states that, with the exception of colour, Kipling's descriptions of Baloo are consistent with the sloth bear, as brown bears and Asian black bears do not occur in the Seoni area where the novel takes place. Also, the name sloth can be used in the context of sleepiness. Karlin states, however, that Baloo's diet of "... only roots and nuts and honey" is a trait more common to the Asian black bear than to the sloth bear.[1] Nevertheless, this may be single observation only; we know from the dietary habits of sloth bears that while sloth bears mainly prefer termites and ants (which is also described as Baloo's special treat in The Jungle Book), their main sources of food are honey and fruits most of the year. In the 2016 adaptation, Baloo is stated to be a sloth bear by Bagheera, though his appearance is similar to that of a Himalayan brown bear. Though this subspecies of the brown bear is absent from historical records on Seoni, it might have ranged across most of northern India.[2]" Baloo in kiplings adaption is a stern teacher who routinely smacks mowgli, shere khan has a lame paw, bagheera is actually more feared than shere khan, kaa is mowglis companion etc. But we are talking about Baloo from the most recent movie, correct? He is a sloth bear |
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