[Psycho_Bunny]

It was attempted fraud and the persons involved should be arrested.

[Navy Patriot]

Bunny, you are right, it is fraud, but it was committed (and then exposed) not attempted. The government is going to use the study, and the perps have kept their jobs and moved to another position to do it again for, say kangaroo rats, or some other worthless vermin.

The BS excuse that they were "testing" the labs won't fly as they could have sent samples from Lynx and other similar non-Lynx cats in a single blind test. It wasn't necessary to go into the field to test the lab. Ironic that the lab was so good that the lab nailed the samples as from a ringer animal already in the custody of these "biologists".