Baloo is a fictional character.
Baloo ( भालू Bhālū , `` bear '' ) is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book from 1894 and The Second Jungle Book from 1895 . Baloo , a bear , is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack . Baloo 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 Jungle Book stories . A character ( sometimes known as a fictional character ) is a person or other being in a narrative work of art ( such as a novel , play , television series , or film ) .