Footage has emerged from China of zookeepers struggling to catch a tiger cub that had escaped from its nursery to find its mother.

The video, filmed in Fushun in northeastern China's Liaoning Province on October 8, shows a tiger climbing out of its nursery and walking around to the front of its mother's cage.

The tiger cub strikes the keeper on the head when he tries to catch it.

The tiger cub was eventually caught and returned to the nursery.