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[The Jungle Book/TaleSpin] Why did Baloo leave the jungle to fly a plane?

Baloo preached about the bare necessities. Why would he leave that all behind to go get a job and earn a living? Also, why would he go to a town that was practically run by Shere Khan?
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The Jungle Book was just the first chapter in a long tale.

It does indeed begin with Mowgli, the young boy who is raised by animals as an orphan and brought back to society by the animals, Baloo in particular.

The story continues in the Jungle Book 2, which details Mowgli's return to the jungle, and Shere Khan's subsequent infiltration into the human village only to be defeated.

And this is where the tale takes a turn, as Shere Khan now knows what the human world is, and covets it. It is assumed that he somehow defeats, runs off, or just plain eats all the humans in Usland, the setting of Talespin. Since also there is a mention many times of a Great War, there is room for a theory that humanity was defeated, at least in Usland 20 years ago, and Shere Khan came to power as a later result.

Whatever the events were, they resulted in sudden industrialization and advancement of animal society, and with it, of course comes the attendant overuse of the landscape and damaging of resources, one of which may have been the jungle Baloo was resident in.

In any case, something drove him from his idyllic and naked lifestyle in the jungle to become a quite competent pilot, and then eventually to open his own business in Cape Suzette. Any business run in Cape Suzette is done under the auspices of Shere Khan, so Baloo would choose to do so if anything, out of laziness and a lack of interest in exerting more effort than necessary to live the life he wants.

Of course his laziness ends in his business coming into debt and being bought out by Rebecca, and his lack of fear when facing trouble leads him to clashes with Don Carnage and his pirates, which in turn leads to him meeting the young cub Kit, thus setting the stage for the entirety of the TaleSpin series.