Baloo 

Baloo has possibly been missrepresented in both Disney films. First, depicted as a nondescript grey bear, and then as a brown bear. 

Even though Baloo is described by Kipling as being a brown bear, it is possible that he only meant so in colour. Brown bears are only indigenous to high altitude regions and in this case, the Himalayan mountain range. While sloth bears are native to the areas in and around the setting of this story. While in the move he is depicted as lazy and has a hakkuna matata attitude about life, in the book he is actually very strict and hard handed with Mowgli, and he also teaches all the other youngsters in the pack and others, the ways of the jungle and their laws.

Below is a quote of the description given by Wiki

"He is described in Kipling's work as "the sleepy brown bear". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his knowledge of Indian fauna, used the Hindi word "Bhalu" for several bear species, though Daniel Karlin, who edited the Penguin reissue of The Jungle Book in 1989, states that, with the exception of colour, 

Kipling's descriptions of Baloo are consistent with the sloth bear, as brown bears and Asian black bears do not occur in the Seoni area where the novel takes place. Also, the name sloth can be used in the context of sleepiness. Karlin states, however, that Baloo's diet of "only roots and nuts and honey" is a trait more common to the Asian black bear than to the sloth bear.[1] Nevertheless, this may be single observation only; according to the dietary habits of sloth bears, while sloth bears prefer termites and ants (which is also described as Baloo's special treat in The Jungle Book), their main sources of food are honey and fruits most of the year.

In the 2016 adaptation, Baloo is stated to be a sloth bear by Bagheera, though his appearance is similar to that of a Himalayan brown bear. Though this subspecies of the brown bear is absent from historical records on Seoni, it might have ranged across most of northern India"