Bagheera is a black panther (black Indian leopard) who is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling 's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (coll.1895). The word Bagh (बाघ) means tiger in Hindi.ears later, Bagheera is seen most of the time spending time on a tree not doing much and sometimes running with a fully-grown Mowgli, Grey Brother, a new friend named Baloo the brown bear, who is saved as a cub by Mowgli on the day Mowgli is accepted into the pack, and the wolf pack.