A narrow scape I have filmed lions a lot (ever since I was 20 years old) and I never had serious problems with them. Strangely, I felt most at danger when lions wanted to play. I remember an expedition a few years ago in Tanzania. I sat in my tent reading just after sunset. One of our guides called out "Lion!" That wasn't particularly unusual, so I didn't take much notice. But when the guide called out again, I looked out and saw that two lions were slowly approaching our camp. We parked our car some distance away and it was too far to reach. So I had run back to the tent and quickly zipped it up. I could hear a lot of noise coming from the kitchen, so I assumed the guides had gone back there to make noise to scare the lions off. I waited and when the noise had died down, I looked out again. The two guides had locked themselves in the car. The lions were gone, but where they were playing in the kitchen, there was an incredible mess.