Amazing footage of a lion attacking a photographer's GoPro and trying to swallow it.

The video, filmed at Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, shows the curious big cat approaching the little camera on a road, before it tries to eat the device.

The filmer later wrote online: "We came across a coalition of four male lions conducting their territorial patrol.

"I drove up the road ahead of them and positioned my GoPro on the road to get a ground level shot of all four lions walking."

"However, the first male had other ideas," she continued. "He picked it up and only discarded it a sloppy 20 minutes later."

I was out on a photographic safari at MalaMala Game Reserve. We came across a coalition of four male lions conducting their territorial patrol. I drove up the road ahead of them and positioned my GoPro on the road to get a ground level shot of all four lions walking. However, the first male had other ideas! This odd thing was worthy of a closer look. He picked it up and only discarded it a sloppy 20mins later!