<Li> In the 1996 Hungarian play version, Bagheera is again a female panther . Her main role is bribing the wolf pack with a bull, so they accept Mowgli as Akela's cub, teaching Mowgli with Baloo about the Rules of the Jungle, and advising him throughout the play . </Li> <Li> In the 1998 film The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, Bagheera is portrayed as a female, voiced by Eartha Kitt . </Li> <Li> In the 2002 comic book series Fables, Bagheera appears as one of the characters living in exile on the Farm in upstate New York . He participates in the farm uprising and, along with the other "Kipling" fables, he assists Goldilocks in tracking down Reynard the Fox . Bagheera actually succeeds in tracking down Reynard, though the Fox manages to escape from him . It is implied that Bagheera's primary motivation for capturing the Fox is to show up Shere Khan after Khan arrogantly rejects Bagheera's offer of help . After the uprising is defeated, a remorseful Bagheera agrees to imprisonment rather than forced labor . However, as he reveals to Mowgli, he has the memory of urinating on the deceased Shere Khan's grave to amuse himself . </Li> <Li> A 2007 Swedish play version of The Jungle Book spoofed the confusion of Bagheera's sex in the media by portraying him as a transvestite . </Li>

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