While you do have to kill an animal to test brain tissue for rabies, there was absolutely no valid reason to suspect this animal had rabies, given that rabies is virtually non-existent in lynx. The lynx's behaviour was not that of a sick animal, only one that was starving and forced to take measures to find food such as hovering around a groundhog burrow where it was first noticed by cyclists.
As for the lynx not reacting in fear with respect to the cyclists this would not be unusual for an intelligent animal that has not experienced any threat from the hundreds of cyclists that go through the park each day.
The NCC's comment that the lynx posed a public safety threat by stalking mice on the road is pretty silly given the real safety risks involved in vehicles and cyclists sharing the parkway's narrow winding roads with many blind spots. We don't drive on the parkway for that reason, having seen several near misses.
Donna DuBreuil
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