Bagheera is the product of her late father's genetic research into intelligence.

Unlike her friends, she is capable of deep commitment, as exemplified by her fulfilling her promise to her dead father, and caring for the cougar, Bagheera, bred by her father for his researches.

# " Mowgli's Brothers ": A boy is raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, and then has to fight the tiger Shere Khan.

When Mowgli is abducted by monkeys, Baloo and Bagheera set out to rescue him with the aid of Chil the Kite and Kaa the python.

Written by Crisse and drawn by Marc N ' Guessan and Guy Michel, it resets the stories in a post-apocalyptic world in which Mowgli's friends are humans rather than animals: Baloo is an elderly doctor, Bagheera is a fierce African woman warrior and Kaa is a former army sniper.

Bagheera the black-toned Indian leopard is an animal fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book ( coll.

Bagheera is one of Mowgli's mentors and best friends.

In the animated Russian version Adventures of Mowgli Bagheera is portrayed as female.

Bagheera is portrayed as friendly, loyal, trustworthy, protective, and cunning, yet somewhat tricky.

In the film, it is Bagheera and not the wolves who first finds Mowgli, a young village child and he is the one who takes him back to the village.

During the movie, Bagheera often argues with Baloo, for he knows that as long as Shere Khan is in the jungle, the jungle is not safe for Mowgli despite all Baloo's attempts to protect him.

Bagheera is also the narrator of the movie's story.

In some Disney comics drawn in Italy, Bagheera is depicted as a female non-anthropomorphic animal movie star, loosely based on her animated movie appearance.

In the song " Bagheera " by Blues Traveler, he is depicted with blood stained fur drinking at the bar, counseling a young man-cub about his choice to live as man or as a free creature.

After the uprising is defeated, a remorseful Bagheera agrees to imprisonment rather than forced labor.

Bagheera and Baloo enlist Kaa's help to rescue Mowgli when the man-cub is captured by the Bandar-log ( monkeys ) and taken to an abandoned human city.

Bagheera and Baloo are also hypnotized, but Mowgli is immune because he is human, and breaks the spell on his friends.

As Mowgli makes one last attempt to call to Bagheera to save him he can only croak out his name as he is half hypnotized and still concentrating on Kaa's bobbing head, spirals and soft song, and as he does so, Kaa tightens his final coil around Mowgli's neck making him gulp loudly.

Despite Shere Khan's bluster, Mowgli is accepted into Akela's wolf pack and protected by Bagheera and Baloo.

* Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning comic book series Fables, published by Vertigo Comics, features the Jungle Book's Mowgli, Bagheera and Shere Khan ; though their characterisation remains true to Kipling's stories, Willingham and artist Mark Buckingham also make oblique references to the 1967 Disney animation in dialogue and artwork.

It's also very close to the book's storyline, and one of the few adaptations which has Bagheera as a female panther.

He was also known for playing Dr. Carl Hyatt in the series Checkmate ( 1960 – 1962 ) and for voicing Bagheera in The Jungle Book ( 1967 ) and his narration for the first four films in Disney's Winnie the Pooh series.

He also did voice parts for animated films such as Disney's The Sword In The Stone ( 1963 ) as Sir Ector, Jungle Book ( 1967 ) as Bagheera, and the narrator of Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree ( 1966 ) and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day ( 1968 ).

Baloo and Bagheera are also hypnotised, but Mowgli, being human, is immune and snaps them out of their trances.

Another collection of watches named " Bagheera " – inspired by the round design of the " Black Moon " watches – was also released in 1990.

When Father Wolf and Mother Wolf of the Seeonee ( Seoni ) wolf pack adopt the human " cub " Mowgli and the pack demands that the new cub should be spoken for, Bagheera buys Mowgli's life with a freshly killed bull and helps to raise him as one of the pack.

In the comic book series Fables, Bagheera appears as one of the characters living in exile on the Farm in upstate New York.

The Third Jungle Book by Pamela Jekel, cover art by Nancy Malick depicting Mowgli and Bagheera, the characters created by Rudyard Kipling.

He visits her at home, helping her to clean out some of her possessions, and meeting her tame cougar, Bagheera.

Angered by this, Kaa turns on Bagheera only to be shoved a out of the tree by a confused, yet awake, Mowgli.

He likes to play with his friends and sometimes plays tricks on Bagheera in order to snap the latter out of his uptight attitude.

Meanwhile Bagheera the panther arrives and takes their place in the hut, so that when the villagers arrive to take out the prisoners they get an unpleasant surprise.

The biggest change, however, is Shere Khan: he spends a lot of time hunting, as Bagheera and Kaa do, and as the series progresses, begins to become more annoyed with the other cubs than before.

Baloo and Bagheera try to reason with Khan by recounting the Red Dogs story, in which they and the other animals saved Khan's life, but Khan refuses to listen.

They participate in the " I Wan ' na Be Like You ", during which Baloo and Bagheera attempt to free Mowgli from Louie.

Baloo and Bagheera insist that the Bandar-log are a boastful and ignorant race who have no leader and no laws, which is why they are shunned by the rest of the jungle.

* The Jungle Book: Baloo, King Louie, Kaa, Shere Khan, the 4 Vultures, Mowgli, Bagheera, The Monkeys, Shanti, Colonel Hathi, Akela, Winifred, and Colonel Hathi's Son.

Baloo, a sloth bear, and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger, and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of the stories of the Jungle Book.

The adult version of himself appears in the Jungle Cubs: Born to be Wild video ( again voiced by Tony Jay ), and in these cutscenes, he attempts to kill Mowgli when he ( Mowgli ), Baloo and Bagheera walk into his part of the jungle.

Louie becomes so wrapped up in being King of the Jungle and is no longer so close to Baloo, Bagheera becomes more serious and uptight than before, and Hathi begins spending more time with Winifred than with the other Cubs.

The Jungle Cubs kids: Shere Khan, Kaa, Bagheera, Baloo, Hathi, and Louie.

* 319: The Jungle Book ( Disneyland edition, 1967 )-Narrated by Robie Lester ( new edition, 1977 )-Narrated by Laurie Main as Bagheera the Panther ( Includes the songs The Bare Necessities and I Wan ' na Be Like You )

* 4DC: The Jungle Book ( 1977 ) Narrated by Laurie Main as Bagheera the Panther ( with " jungle bird " calling in the soundtrack ) ( Includes the songs: " The Bare Necessities " and " I Wanna Be Like You ")