This would be my interpretation of Mowgli, the Indian “man-cub” from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, with his melanistic leopard friend Bagheera. I have to be honest, I remember being disappointed in the story when I read the original Kipling work a few years back, but I do like some of the adaptations it has inspired (such as the live-action remake Disney did in 2016). You could say Mowgli is the Indian prototype for Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes.