


Baloo is a very confident and relaxed bear and will do anything for a sweet treat. After his surgery, Baloo was returned to his brothers and the three have been together ever since, with hardly a quarrel between them. During Baloo’s surgery was the only time the three brothers have ever been separated from one another, and Shere Khan the tiger and Leo the lion became extremely agitated because of it, pacing and vocalizing for the lost member of their family to return. The harness was so ingrown that his flesh had begun to grow over and around it, and surgical intervention was required to remove the harness and clean his deep, infected wounds. At only a few months old, all three cubs were frightened, malnourished, and infected with internal and external parasites when the Georgia Department of Natural Resources brought them to Noah’s Ark.īaloo the American black bear was in the worst condition of the three cubs rescued with a severely ingrown harness digging into his flesh because it was never loosened as he grew in size. Baloo the American black bear ( Ursus americanus), Leo the African lion ( Panthera leo), and Shere Khan the Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris) known as “The BLT” came to Noah’s Ark in 2001 after they were discovered by police officers in a basement of an Atlanta home during a drug raid.
