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Bagheera is also the name of a genus of Jumping spiders, named after the character.

Originally born in captivity in the menagerie of the Rajah of Oodeypore ( Udaipur), Bagheera begins to pine for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes into the jungle, where his ferocity and cunning win him the respect of all its other inhabitants, except Shere Khan the tiger. Bagheera reveals all this to Mowgli later. None but Mowgli ever learns that Bagheera once wore a collar and chain.

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Bagheera shares in many of Mowgli's adventures as he grows, but eventually the time comes when the man-cub becomes a man and has to return to human society. Bagheera frees Mowgli of his debt to the wolf pack by killing another bull, and Mowgli returns to his adopted human mother MessuaMessua is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book''. She is the wife of the richest man in an Indian village; her husband's name is not given. When Mowgli leaves the jungle and arrives at their village, they b.