The Jungle Book (1967 film) The Jungle Book (1967 film) The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical comedy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, it is the 19th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. The plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him to leave the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives. The early
The Black Panther of Sivanipalli and Other Adventures of the Indian Jungle explains his reasons for devoting the first five chapters to panthers. A Panther's Way Anderson discusses the habitual differences of the panther and tiger, and the methods adopted for tracking them. Man-Eating Panther of the Yellagiri Hills A cattle-lifting panther turns man-eater when wounded by a local man's gunshot, and Kenneth Anderson heads to the Yellagiri Hills to investigate. Over the course of many weeks he returns to the Yellagiri Hills and sits up over goat and donkey baits awaiting a successful shot. On a few occasions the panther charges at Anderson, and on one such charge Anderson successfully gets