The DeYoung Family Zoo is a zoo that opened to the public in 1990. It is located in Wallace, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 about 15 miles (24.1 km) north of Menominee

Menominee, Michigan

Menominee is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,131. It is the county seat of Menominee County. Menominee is the fourth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, behind Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, and Escanaba...

. 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. The zoo has a license to breed the cats.

Animals

The zoo's most popular attractions are tigers, leopards and lions.
There are also Russian Grizzly Bears, Mountain Lions, Wolves,Zorilla,Marbled Polecats, Kinkajou,
Coyote

Coyote

The coyote , also known as the American jackal or the prairie wolf, is a species of canine found throughout North and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States and Canada...

s, Bennett Wallabies

Wallaby

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name.-Overview:...

, Ringtailed Lemur

Lemur

Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar. They are named after the lemures of Roman mythology due to the ghostly vocalizations, reflective eyes, and the nocturnal habits of some species...

s, White Bengal Tigers, a Wild Mustang

Mustang (horse)

A Mustang is a free-roaming horse of the North American west that first descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but there is intense debate over terminology...

, Coatimundi

Coati

Coatis, genera Nasua and Nasuella, also known as the Brazilian aardvark, Mexican tejón, hog-nosed coon, pizotes, crackoons and snookum bears, are members of the raccoon family . They are diurnal mammals native to South America, Central America, and south-western North America...

s, Camels, Yak

Yak

The yak, Bos grunniens or Bos mutus, is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. In addition to a large domestic population, there is a small, vulnerable wild yak population...

, White-fronted Capuchin

White-fronted Capuchin

The white-fronted capuchin, Cebus albifrons, is a species of capuchin monkey, a type of New World primate, found in seven different countries in South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago...

, Binturong

Binturong

The Binturong , also known as the Asian Bearcat, the Palawan Bearcat, or simply the Bearcat, is a species of the family Viverridae, which includes the civets and genets. It is the only member of its genus...

,Chimpanzee, Spotted Hyenas, Striped Hyenas, Boa Constricters, Burmese Pythons, Anaconda, Many different kinds of Lizards, Mouflon Sheep (Petunia), Lanner Falcon, Crested Porcupines, Hippopotamus, Black Bears, Alligators (that Bud and Carrie 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, Tortises, Pine Martens, Fennec Fox, Albino Raccoon, and Red Fox

Red Fox

The red fox is the largest of the true foxes, as well as being the most geographically spread member of the Carnivora, being distributed across the entire northern hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, Central America, and the steppes of Asia...

. Bud and Carrie also participate in rehabilitation of local species of animals including Whitetail deer, Raccoons, and anything else that needs help.

Siberian tigers

In 2008 the zoo successfully bred two endangered Siberian tigers, which produced a litter of four.

Attractions

Attractions include a petting zoo full of domestic animals to meet and feed. Over 400 animals from all over the world. Visitors can watch the Zoo Animal Programs and enjoy Animal Feeding Times.
The zoo offers hands on education, up close family fun, 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

National Geographic Wild

Nat Geo WILD is a cable TV channel focused on animal-related programs. It is a sister network to National Geographic Channel and it is the latest channel to be jointly launched by the National Geographic Society and Fox Cable Networks. It first launched in Hong Kong on January 1, 2006, focusing...

 cable station, filmed at the DeYoung Family Zoo. Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

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.