Bears in the Jungle

[aaslatten]

I keep seeing ads for the Jungle Book 2, and it always make me wonder: Is there any species of bear that actually lives in the jungle?

[Lemur866]

Baloo either a sloth bear: http://www.bearbiology.com/sldesc.html or an asiatic black bear: http://www.bearbiology.com/abdesc.html

Both bears are found in India. From the way Baloo is depicted, I think he is supposed to be an asiatic black bear. However, the cartoons never show him with the white crescent moon markings typical of asiatic black bears.

The sun bear: http://www.bearbiology.com/sudesc.html is found in tropical Southeast Asia, but not India. The spectacled bear from South America: http://www.bearbiology.com/spdesc.html can also sometimes be found in rainforests.

[Captain Amazing]

In the book, Kipling describes Baloo as brown in color.

Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council--Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey--rose upon his hind quarters and grunted

[j.c.]

Bears are real butts when it comes to identification. Brown and Black bears can be either color. I guess they're just called brown bears and black bears because it wouldn't make sense to have a type of bear called brown or black or blackish-brown bears and another type of bear called black or brown or brownish-black bears.

Grizzlies are almost never black black, but they can get pretty dark.

Bears are no good.

The raccoon, the ring-tailed lemur - these are animals you can trust to have the same coloring every time!

[Zorro]

Originally posted by j.c.

Bears are no good.

Especially those f***ing devious panda things. People used to go on about Inscrutable Mandarins, and develop all these paranoid fantasies about the Evil Dr Fu Manchu. Only after all this time, the Mandarins are long gone, taken care of by the revolution of 1911. It turned out that behindthe droppy moustaches and pigtails, they were as scrutable as you or I. But the pandas, well, they're insidious creatures, and more importantly, they're still around. They may look like big cuddly black and white bamboo munchers, but they have the government of the most populated planet on Earth at their beck and call, as well as a lot of assistance from the rest of us.

Well make no mistake, people: these manipulative b******s are bears. Big, scary things with teeth and claws that wear teddy-bear camo to create a false sense of security. Don't worry about what colour Baloo is, it's Ping Ping that you should be keeping an eye on.

[j.c.]

have you seen the ad that shows the true panda, not hidden behind the mask - is ithe face of evil.

(Even though pandas aren't bears...)

[Lemur866]

Trust raccoons, will you? Take a gander at these babies:
http://wildanimalworld.net/racoons.html
Raccoons are truly a devious species.

We lemurs on the other hand, are extremely trustworthy. Any information you find to the contrary is simply lies. Lies I tell you!
http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/Ma...r3/albino.html

[j.c.]

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!