Zimbabwe 2007

One of guides took my camera and told me it was OK to pick up this cub for a photo.  This cub didn't like the idea and you can see what happened -- he bit me!  You can see the other guide reaching to assist me as I react to the pain.  I actually got bitten twice, the second time was deep, penetrating my skin in two places.  The lion wasn't really trying to eat me, he was just reminding me that he didn't enjoy being manhandled!  (P.S., I did get a tetanus shot, and the bite hurt for 3 weeks)

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