Reason for jungle-phobia
Her phobia could be due to the fact that India is home to fifteen accounts of actual man-eating animals: Baloo's species are feared more than tigers even, and there's even one sloth bear that has actually gone man-eater: the Sloth Bear of Mysore. Besides Shere Khan and Kaa, there have been actual man-eating tigers (at least a total of eight, all in India), and man-eating pythons (there have been reports of the Reticulated python eating humans or try to, though none happened in India, and Kaa was probably modeled as a reticulated). Even the wolves can be dangerous to people: the Wolves of Hazaribagh and the Wolves of Ashta have actually treated humans as prey.184.186.4.209 00:41, March 8, 2019 (UTC)