Wolf form and lions

[Divarin]

I was poking around on archive.org and found this page from a site that I used a lot back in the day: eqdruids.com
this comes from the earliest record of the site, in 1999

excerpt from http://replay.waybackmachine.org/200...om/kiting1.htm:

An important buff during this tactic especially in East Karana is staying in wolf form because otherwise there are plenty of lions that will still try to take advantage of a sitting person there.

on p1999, I get attacked by lions while sitting in wolf form.

is there any other sources of information that could verify one way or another whether that's correct behavior for a lion?