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Age and build

mature and experienced

“Bagheera, who had eyes and ears everywhere, knew something of this” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

Face and hair

entirely black with silk-like pattern

“Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk” (The Jungle Book, part 1)

silky chin and jaw

“just under Bagheera’s silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

white teeth

“his white teeth bared under his lip” (The Jungle Book, part 3)

Dress

glossy black fur

“the boy lay with his head on Bagheera’s beautiful black skin” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

soft fur like down

“he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down” (The Jungle Book, part 1)

Voice and speech

soft and gentle voice

“he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree” (The Jungle Book, part 1)

speaks in undertones and whispers

“said Bagheera, under his whiskers” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

purrs when pleased

“would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo” (The Jungle Book, part 3)

deep hoarse cough when fighting

“Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies” (The Jungle Book, part 5)

Signature words

Little Brother

“Come along, Little Brother” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

Red Flower (for fire)

“Get the Red Flower” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

That is a man

“That is a man. That is all a man” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

Good hunting

“Good hunting for us all” (The Jungle Book, part 4)

The Law

“That is the Law of the Jungle” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

Gait and mannerisms

moves silently and swiftly

“The Black Panther had raced up the slope almost without a sound” (The Jungle Book, part 5)

quick panther-canter when hurrying

“Bagheera hurried forward, at the quick panther-canter” (The Jungle Book, part 5)

lies out on branches

“Bagheera would lie out on a branch and call, “Come along, Little Brother” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

stretches and half-shuts eyes when relaxed

“Bagheera stretched himself at full length and half shut his eyes” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

Strengths

cunning and intelligent

“he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant” (The Jungle Book, part 1)

learned the ways of men and became more terrible than Shere Khan

“And because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

skilled fighter and hunter

“Bagheera killed right and left as he felt hungry” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

feared by all jungle creatures

“Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path” (The Jungle Book, part 1)

Flaws

sometimes suspicious and distrustful

“Bagheera, who did not know much about Kaa, was naturally suspicious” (The Jungle Book, part 4)

can be harsh in punishment

“Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of view” (The Jungle Book, part 6)

struggles with his past captivity

“I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died—in the cages of the king’s palace at Oodeypore” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

Traits

protective mentor to Mowgli

“He loved better than anything else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

honorable and principled

“Bagheera’s honor is something that he will perhaps fight for” (The Jungle Book, part 3)

proud and dignified

“Is Bagheera,” said the Black Panther, and his jaws shut with a snap, for he did not believe in being humble” (The Jungle Book, part 4)

loyal friend and ally

“I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted” (The Jungle Book, part 3)

Lines in their own words

“for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

“Now I know thou art a man, and a man’s cub no longer. The jungle is shut indeed to thee henceforward” (The Jungle Book, part 3)

to Mowgli about Shere Khan

“Little Brother, how often have I told thee that Shere Khan is thy enemy” (The Jungle Book, part 2)

“jump on my back, Little Brother, and we will go home” (The Jungle Book, part 6)