Adorable footage of a lion cub nuzzling and snoozing next to Damian Aspinall’s daughter has reached more than 10 million views.

Freya Aspinall, whose dad is the chairman of Port Lympne near Hythe and Howletts Wild Animal Park near Canterbury, shared the clip only yesterday.

It shows her cuddling up with a lion cub, whose head is about the same size as her own.

She smiles as she films the two of them snuggling together and says she has become an “honorary mother figure to the cub” since hand-rearing it after its mother sadly died.

Freya is seen stroking the lion’s head as it leans back into her arms.

Captioning the TikTok video, which has so far had 10.1 million views, she says: “I had to sleep with the lions for five months because their mother died.

“I had to hand raise them and became the honorary mother figure.

“We are sending these lions to Africa where they belong.

“They are not pets and we actually hate zoos. I’m in this position because we have [an] animal sanctuary where we rescue animals and send them back to the wild.

“And yes these cubs can go back to Africa, we have done it before successfully.”

The footage has also had more than two million likes and more than 7,000 comments.

This is not the first time jaw-dropping videos of her and her father getting close to animals at the parks have been shared.

In December, the Aspinall Foundation founder shared a clip of him and the two hand-reared lion cubs, Zemo and Zala.

The footage shows Zemo having a ride on his back before Zala jumps up at the pair.

In the same month, a touching moment between Freya and a gorilla who she has known for her whole life was captured on camera.

In the clip, the 20-year-old sits with the gorillas and hands them treats while in their enclosure.

Freya, who is a conservationist from London, has known silverback Kifu, 36, and Tambabi, 35, since she was born.

In November, her father Damian shared a lovely moment also with a gorilla where the huge animal took his cap off his head and put it on her own.

She and her father are the only people who are able to interact with the gorillas like this safely.

A spokesperson for Howletts said this is because of years of building up “trust, love and respect”.