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DeYoung Family Zoo

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DeYoung Family Zoo
Date opened 1990
Location Wallace, Michigan

45.30793°N
Coordinates
87.644913°WCoordinates:
45.30793°N 87.644913°W
No. of
450
animals
No. of
125
species
Owner Bud DeYoung, Carrie Cramer
Website thedeyoungfamilyzoo.com

The DeYoung Family Zoo is a zoo that opened to the public in 1990. It is open yearly from
May until the end of October. It is located in Wallace, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
about 15 miles (24 km) north of Menominee. The zoo is owned by Bud DeYoung and Carrie
Cramer. The facility has many exotic felines, and provides visitor interactions, as well as
baby animals to pet and bottle feed.

Contents
 1 Animals
 2 Attractions
 3 My Life is a Zoo
 4 References
 5 External links

Animals
The zoo's most popular attractions are tigers, leopards, lions, a liger and a hippopotamus.
There are also Russian grizzly bears, mountain lions, wolves, zorilla, marbled polecats,
kinkajou, coyotes, Bennett wallabies, ring-tailed lemurs, white Bengal tigers, a wild mustang,
coatis, camels, yak, white-fronted capuchin, binturong, chimpanzee, spotted hyenas, striped
hyenas, boa constrictors, Burmese pythons, anaconda, many different kinds of lizards,
mouflon sheep (Petunia), lanner falcon, crested porcupines, black bears, alligators (that the
owners swim with and catch on the weekends in the summer), spider monkeys, bobcats,
badgers, emus, red kangaroo, New Guinea singing dogs, olive baboons, black-backed jackals,
lynx, Arctic foxes, ducks, geese, chickens, rabbits, palm civets, tortoises, pine martens,
fennec fox, albino raccoon, and red fox.

DeYoung and Cramer also participate in rehabilitation of local species of animals including
white-tailed deer, raccoons, and anything else that needs help. In 2008, the zoo successfully
bred two endangered Siberian tigers, which produced a litter of four.[1]

Attractions
Attractions include a petting zoo full of domestic animals to meet and feed, with more than
400 animals from all over the world. Visitors can watch the zoo animal programs and animal
feeding. The zoo offers hands on education and animal education programs. The park strives
to educate the public on animal issues, conservation needs, and proper animal husbandry.

My Life is a Zoo
My Life is a Zoo is a television show on National Geographic Wild cable station, filmed at the
DeYoung Family Zoo.[2] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times wrote that DeYoung and
Cramer "should be commended for their exotic-animal rescues and abundant enthusiasm but
perhaps not for their hygiene," citing an occasion in the series in which Cramer is seen
kissing a hyena on the lips.[3]

References
1.

 Natalie Zimmermann (2008-07-28). "Cute, cuddly and endangered". Upper Michigans

Source.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
  My Life Is a Zoo- Nat Geo Wild
 Neil Genzlinger (2010) "All Creatures Great and Repulsive", The New York Times, April
21, 2010.