In its miniature savanna in the Bronx on Friday, a lion basked in both the sunshine and his newfound fame.

“He’s an Instagram star,” said Lou Liotta, who had brought his family to the zoo from Connecticut.

A week earlier, the lion — or one of his two shaggy-maned colleagues in the zoo’s African lion exhibit — became an online sensation as videos went viral of a woman dancing mere steps from the lion, seemingly inside the exhibit.

The woman wiggled and waved in the lion’s gaze as zoo visitors videotaped the episode and promptly posted it online.

The video saturated social media and was featured by news outlets, drawing predictable measures of outrage, scorn and ridicule. Some people online referred to her as the “lion queen.”