A shocking video showed a close call on live television as a lion repeatedly dragged a screaming toddler out of its mother's arms.
The footage resurfaced this week and is from Mexican talk show Con Sello de Mujer, according to the Sun, and was filmed in 2006. It shows two trainers talking about lions as a young lion sits at their feet. When a baby being held on set starts to fuss, the animal lunges at it and starts biting. The animal drags the small, screaming child by the leg while the mother and its animal's handler remain unreasonably calm for people witnessing a carnivorous animal scooping up a human baby.
Lion snatches up a baby on live TV pic.twitter.com/FQftsgpmJn
The woman handler tries to pry open the jaws of the lion as it clutches to the baby's pant leg. "Don't move; relax, relax, relax," she repeats in Spanish as she soothes the baby. Once she finally pulls the child out of the lion's clutches, she offers an explanation for the animal's attack.
"She likes children because everything smaller than 60 centimeters is a toy to her," she said before telling the handler to bring the lion back to the baby, for some reason.
Eventually the lion is taken off the stage, and it appears that nobody was hurt in the incident. Now we know what to do in the case of a lion attack: keep calm and keep smiling while a carnivorous animal threatens to kill your baby.
