A tourist on safari had an incredibly lucky escape after deciding to lean out of a vehicle to stroke a wild lion. The short clip was filmed on a tour of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, when visitors must not have believed their luck when the van was able to get within inches of two lions.
With the big cats seemingly happy to mind their own business as people inside the vehicle capture the moment on cameras, footage shows one man sitting within touching distance of the lions with the window wide open.
The temptation proves to be too much for one fellow passenger, who then leans across him to reach out of the window and stroke the lion's back.
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