<P> Bagheera is one of Mowgli's mentors and best friends . He, Baloo and Kaa sing for Mowgli "The Outsong" of the jungle . He also calls out to Mowgli in farewell, "Remember, Bagheera loved thee...Remember, Bagheera loved thee ." </P> <P> In some film and television series adaptations of the Jungle Book Bagheera is an Indian leopard . In other appearances, he has a black pigmentation, which is why he is commonly referred to as a black panther . </P> <P> In Disney's 1967 animated adaptation, Bagheera the panther is, as in the book, male, and voiced by Sebastian Cabot . The panther is portrayed as an intelligent, mature, and logical character, quite similar to the Bagheera in the books . In the film, it is Bagheera and not the wolves who first finds Mowgli, a young village child . It is Bagheera who brings Mowgli to the care of the wolves and ensures that the baby survives . He is also the one who takes him back to the village, for his own safety, as he knew for years that Mowgli would eventually need to leave his adoptive animal family to return to his place in the human world . During the film, Bagheera often lectures Baloo, for he knows that as long as Shere Khan is in the jungle, the jungle is not safe for Mowgli despite all of Baloo's attempts to protect him . Bagheera is also the narrator of the film's story . </P> <P>  The 1967 cartoon film adaptation of "The Jungle Books" was Walt Disney's final film, though he died before he could finish supervising the completed movie . According to a short documentary video about the making of the film, which is available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhAZEDiKSsM&t=13s), Disney told the screenwriters and artists to forget what they had read in Kipling's original stories--the direction he wanted to take for his film was a different approach . Although the original concept art was described as "dark," Walt Disney scrapped those images in favor of a whimsical, musical jungle scene . Bagheera's past is one of the darker elements that Disney omitted in the movie . The violence of Kipling's stories is also toned down . Bagheera, for instance, never physically confronts Shere Khan in the 1967 film even though Baloo defends Mowgli while the protective black panther shelters the boy . No scars are visible on the cartoon Disney drawings of Bagheera to hint at his captive past either . </P>

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