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Bagheera
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Bat
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Puppy
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bagheera (Hindi: / Baghīrā) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling ‘s Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the “man-cub” Mowgli.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bagheera acts as a bridge between the human and animal worlds in The Jungle Book. He was raised in captivity, so he has a better understanding of humans and their ways than the other animals. Like Mowgli, he is a creature of two worlds, and he sympathizes with Mowgli’s confusion over his personal identity.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is a sloth bear, though he is supposedly a Himalayan brown bear in the 2016 live-action film. (Bagheera does refer to him as a sloth bear however.)