servals bred in Idaho....

I wonder if the female Serval coming to LA will be on breeding loan or just to keep company to the zoo's male serval. I would think it's for breeding, as the zoo is renovating the current serval exhibit and adding a second exhibit for the servals.

By "nation" do they mean USA or just Idaho?
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They mean USA
 
Los Angeles is one of the few serval holding facilities that has received a breeding reccommendation from the PMP.
 
So does this imply that there are domestic cat genes in the rest of the serval population?
 
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The article does seem to imply this, Ituri. However out of the 100+ servals in North America only 9 of these cats have 100% known parentage. In essence the total captive breeding population is 9, now 12 individuals.

That is why this litter is such a big deal, because several serval were imported from Africa a few years back. Since then only one other litter has been born from this new founder stock.
 
So it's not a case of known gene contamination, it's just a case of unknown origins.
 
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