Would someone be so kind as to remind the idiots at Cornell that Lions eat meat, lots of meat, they consider humans an absolute delicacy and put them at the top of their menu.
The idiots at Cornell are, and I am not making this up, already giddy at the fact that Coyotes are starting to make their way into the City of Evil.
Wait until their pets start getting snacked upon.
Maybe that's what makes Africans such great marathon runners.
Though lions are carnivores, humans are rarely on their menu. We are not part of their regular diet.
In Africa, in terms of attacks on humans, the big cats aren't what you should worry about. There's a much bigger risk of getting attacked by a hippo or a cape buffalo, for example.
And the most lethal animal on the African continent is probably the mosquito.
Even with all of this, introducing lions to the Great Plains is probably not a good idea.