Editing Baloo (section)

{{Short description|Fictional sloth bear}}
{{for|the Indian cricketer|Palwankar Baloo}}
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{{Infobox character
| name = Baloo
| series = The Jungle Book
| image = The second jungle book (1895) (Baloo).jpg
| caption = Baloo in the 1895 edition of ''The Second Jungle Book''
| first = "[[Mowgli's Brothers]]"
| last = The spring Running
| creator = [[Rudyard Kipling]]
| species = [[Sloth Bear]]/Baluchistan Bear (described as a [[Brown bear]] in the book)
| gender = Male
}}
'''Baloo''' (from {{langx|hi|भालू}} ''bhālū'' "bear")<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-hindi/bear|title=Hindi Translation of "bear" {{!}} Collins English-Hindi Dictionary|website=www.collinsdictionary.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-26}}</ref> is a main fictional character featured in [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' from 1894 and ''[[The Second Jungle Book]]'' from 1895. Baloo, a [[sloth bear]], is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack. His most challenging pupil is the "man-cub" [[Mowgli]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Jungle Book|last=Kipling|first=Rudyard|publisher=Penguin|year=1987|isbn=0140432825}}</ref> Baloo and [[Bagheera]], the [[Black panther|panther]], save Mowgli from [[Shere Khan]], the [[tiger]], and endeavour to teach Mowgli [[Law of the jungle|the Law of the Jungle]] in many of ''The Jungle Book'' stories.