An adorable eleven-week-old white lion cub has found an equally cute playmate after a rough start in life.

The incredibly rare white Transvaal lioness had to be taken into human care when she was born after her mother’s milk dried up.

There were fears she would become socially reliant on people and not her own kind while growing up in Sóstó Zoo, in Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest.

But an introduction to a thirteen-week-old lion borrowed from nearby Gyongyos Zoo on Thursday put her keepers’ fears to rest.

The pair pawed at a miniature football covered in tiny teeth marks and tumbled over a cuddly toy tiger together.

Mane man: The eleven-week-old white lioness has a new playmate – a 13-week-old cub from another Zoo in Hungary

Lion around: The incredibly rare white cub is pictured scratching her face with her paw on Thursday while cuddling up to a toy tiger

Her caretaker, Anikó Herlicska, feeds her six times a day with 50 ml of formula milk each time and gives her cod liver oil and gut flora supplement.

The small lioness has not been named yet and keepers are waiting for suggestions which are collected in a box placed next to her enclosure.

Her parents have been together in Sóstó Zoo since 2015.

Lion cubs will have the special light beige colour, which appears white, only if both of their parents possess the same gene producing this rare fur colouration.

The white-coloured animals belong to one population found in the wild in South Africa.

Sniffing him out:  The white cub checked out her new playmate at the zoo in Hungary this week

Ball skills: The thirteen-week-old lion cub was borrowed from nearby Gyongyos Zoo so the white lioness could make friends

Big cat: The cute creature pawed at a tennis ball attached to a rope inside her area at the zoo

It’s a hard life: The cub yawned and stretched out after an energetic play date with the white lioness on Thursday