[Sky News] The hooker is forced to miss a match after the lion did not take kindly to being petted - with the incident caught on camera.Video footage posted on the Twitter feed of former rugby player Andy Goode shows Baldwin reaching through metal bars to touch the big cat.
As he strokes the animal on the head as it lays on the ground, it suddenly snaps. Baldwin, 29, is heard to cry out and pulls his arm away before a warden tells a colleague to get him first aid.
The injury, which needed stitches, occurred on Wednesday during a pre-match visit to a safari park. Baldwin joked in a tweet: "Should of know he wouldn't be impressed with me stroking his lioness before introducing myself to him first".