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NewsColony Wildlife worker dubbed Tiger King of Instagram is filmed punching a lion cub  An Instagram star who shares terrifying videos of himself playing with lions is being investigated for alleged animal cruelty after he was filmed punching one of his cubs. Dean Schneider, 27, who quit his job as a financier in Switzerland to look after a pride of lions at a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa , uploaded a clip of himself striking a cub after it used its claws to scratch his shoulder.  The footage, taken last year, has now been shared with South Africa’s national animal welfare agency which said it had been ‘inundated’ with complaints.  Schneider, who runs the Hakuna Mipaka Oasis reserve, has been compared to Joe Exotic, the anti-hero of Netflix documentary series Tiger King, after attracting almost seven million followers on Instagram by sharing  pictures and videos of himself frolicking about with the supposedly dangerous wild animals.   But what...