Edit: So what I’m gathering is that they’re not so dangerous that they will strike out of nowhere, and people need to be alert of their surroundings constantly. They almost always get seen if there is going to be an interaction, and the vast majority of the time just walk away. Is this correct?
A friend of mine got chased by a lynx for a few hundred meters while on his bike. He had been fishing and most likely the lynx was starving and got the scent of the catch, but it gave up pretty quickly.