is sort of pawing at me a bit. >> scratch the lion's belly. >> it scratched my leg a bit of my foot. but nothing. it's just playing around. >> he likes you. >> even when the lion gets into a tussle with his handler, charlie's not ruffled. >> hey! hey! nyet! come on. >> he just wants to play. >> but the playful lion now turns to charlie. >> then it started to get up and and it got up on its hind legs, and that was the first time i felt the claws go into my back legs. the lion's claws and then his teeth are digging into charlie's body. >> i started to feel pain, like this burning pain which went in. and then he let go. i mean thankfully, otherwise i'd probably be missing, you know, a good quarter of my leg. >> charlie's instinct is to run away from the lion, but he remembers what the handler told