{"id":51028,"date":"2025-12-03T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:01:23","slug":"african-serval-that-escaped-enclosure-in-berks-county-hit-killed-by-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51028\/","title":{"rendered":"African Serval that escaped enclosure in Berks County hit, killed by car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/missing-servals-cricket-wildlife-center-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">ALBERTIS, Pa. &#8211; The last of three African Serval cats that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/3-african-serval-cats-escape-pennsylvania-wildlife-center-after-windstorm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">escaped its enclosure<\/a> during a powerful windstorm in Berks County two months ago was struck and killed by a car.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Wildlife officials said the last remaining missing African Serval cat that escaped its enclosure in Berks County was struck and killed by a car.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The tragic update comes more than a month after three of the exotic cats escaped during a windstorm destroyed part of their enclosure.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Two of the cats were found a week later and safely returned to the Cricket Wildlife Center in Albertis.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The African Wildlife Foundation describes African Serval cats as &#8220;medium-sized wild cats with tawny, black-spotted coats and long necks and long legs that allow them to see over savanna grasses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">With an average lifespan of 23 years, Servals are primarily carnivores and can grow up to 60 centimeters long.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/berks-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berks County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Nature<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ALBERTIS, Pa. &#8211; The last of three African Serval cats that escaped its enclosure during a powerful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,139,539,128,130,129,8039,593,29111],"class_list":["post-51028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-science","tag-us","tag-wild-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}