. . . unless you’re an African lion, that is.

Planet Gore reader Steven Lent sends along the following:

Over the weekend, I was watching a seemingly innocuous and mildly interesting hour-long National Geographic documentary on man-eating lions in Africa.
It told the story of the increasing contact between human and lion populations, and posited the (reasonable sounding) theory that, during the rainy season in Africa, flooding allows prey animals to range farther from the standard watering holes — which dispersion, in turn, forces lions to search a wider area for food, bringing them into more frequent contact with humans. Apparently, some statistical analysis supports the correlation between precipitation levels and lion attacks.
At the close of the show, the narrator then asserted — with no supporting evidence — something like the following: “Experts agree that with the onset of global warming, flooding in Africa will increase and will lead to more people being eaten by lions.”
I’m now conflicted regarding which is the oddest global-warming assertion — more earthquakes, or more lion attacks. So I’m asking the experts. Please advise.