DRESSING your toddler in a zebra hoodie and placing it right outside a lion's den while you film - that's one way to get a kick.

Luckily this child was unfazed by the increasingly enraged lion trying to maul it death through the glass of its enclosure at an Oregon Zoo.

At any rate the child seemed to be happily unaware of the cat's increasingly frenzied attempts to bite, claw and eventually swallow his entire head in its skull crushing jaws.

Apparently the parents were encouraging the situation - telling the child to say "kitty, kitty". Yes, hilarious.

We should point out that zoo authorities insist that the enclosure is completely safe and that the cats are often drawn to small vulnerable children dressed in bright clothes peering through the glass.

Last year a hungry lioness was filmed trying to eat a baby at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado, US.

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Originally published as Urban cat safari - defenceless child at 12 o'clock