After returning home, Pei Qian took out his laptop, first briefly checked some information about the zoo on the Internet, learned some basic knowledge, and then began to think about how to build the zoo in Tengda.
First of all, it's certainly not a large zoo, at least not yet.
Many large foreign zoos have requirements for location and climate. For example, some tropical countries set up tropical zoos, firstly because the climate is suitable, and secondly because the place is large enough.
But Pei Qian’s idea is to open the zoo near the Jingzhou Hotel, which is the old industrial area of Jingzhou. Strictly speaking, this place is not a good zoo location at all. And the climate of Jingzhou itself is not suitable.
Raise some tropical or cold zone animals.
Of course, you can do it indoors and just adjust the temperature through air conditioning.
But in this case, the construction period and expenses will definitely increase significantly.
Pei Qian doesn't mind the large expense, but the issue of construction period still needs to be considered. After all, the first phase of the zoo project is a sudden expense and must be completed before the next settlement.
What's more, the larger the zoo covers an area and the more rare animals there are, the more tourists will come to see it, and the possibility of profit will be greatly increased.
All in all, the goal of the first phase of this zoo is to make it smaller while ensuring the construction period, preferably without any too rare animals. On this basis, burn as much money as possible.
If the first step goes well, then you can try more challenging things later, such as building air-conditioned rooms on a large scale and putting some tropical or cold animals in them.
Secondly, you must carefully consider the choice of animals.
In order to reduce tourists, fewer rare animals must be arranged.
Many small zoos themselves are nothing interesting, but just because there are two giant pandas in the zoo, there will be an endless stream of tourists.
And many extremely rare animals, transported thousands of miles from other countries, will become the treasures of the zoo and become the reason why most people have to go.
In a zoo, the most precious things are definitely the animals.
If you want fire, you have to work on animals.
Therefore, since you don’t want to be popular and want to lose money, you can’t ask for too many rare animals, at least not at this stage. Even if you want rare animals in the future, it will only be after a full evaluation and it is found that the cost of raising them is far greater than the benefits.
Just go down.
So the question is, if you don’t raise rare animals, what should you raise?
You can't just raise horses, cows, sheep, etc. in the entire zoo, right? Should you call it a zoo or a breeding farm?
Pei Qian cannot do this kind of thing that others can see as having a big problem at a glance.
Therefore, a balance must be found: while raising some wild animals for appearance, try to raise some other common, less distinctive animals as well.
This zoo may not be called a zoo, but may be called an animal life museum or something like that.
"What kind of animals are more cost-effective to raise?"
"It's best to choose between domestic and rare wild animals, such as serval cats, arctic foxes, Anglo martens, etc. You can consider them."
There are also differences between domestic and foreign regulations on raising wild animals. Some people abroad raise wild animals such as cheetahs and pumas, but this is not allowed in China. For example, servals are protected animals in China and cannot be raised casually.
Some animals, such as arctic foxes and angel ferrets, can be kept as pets.
But no matter what, any animal that can be domesticated must be relatively common and relatively rare.
All truly rare animals are protected, so how can ordinary people keep them?
So according to this idea, it is more appropriate to keep these animals in the zoo. On the one hand, they are not so rare that they will not attract tourists to come all the way to see them; on the other hand, they are indeed serious wild animals.
Animals don’t look strange when placed in a zoo, and it doesn’t make people think that the zoo is actually a cat cafe or a breeding farm.
In short, as a zoo, you can spend money on anything, but you can't spend a lot of money on buying rare wild animals.
So where to spend the money?
It's simple, spend it on the venue, food, and people!
The first is the venue. Pei Qian has been to many small zoos. Although these zoos occupy a large area, there are too many animals after all. For each animal, there is not much space for activities.
Of course, all animal activity spaces have standards and need to comply with the "Zoo Design Code".
There are strict requirements on the specific proportion of land occupied by animal exhibition area buildings, science education buildings, animal protection facility buildings, etc., as well as strict requirements on visitor capacity, visitable building area, recreational green space area, etc.
All zoos must also comply with relevant regulations.
But this regulation only stipulates a lower limit, but not an upper limit!
Space is never enough. After all, wild animals are originally wild and run around in the mountains and forests. If they are locked up, no amount of space will be enough.
So Pei Qian decided that in this new zoo, each animal would occupy at least 50% more space than other zoos!
For animals like baboons, for example, the minimum cage area is 80 square meters, the fence height is 4 meters, and the basic population size is 2 adult individuals. For every additional adult individual, the area of the cage will increase by 25% to 50%.
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In layman's terms, two baboons will occupy 80 square meters of space, and for each additional baboon, at least 20 square meters will be added.
However, this floor area is only the lower limit of cage design parameters stipulated by the state, so it is definitely a bit crowded.
Pei Qian decided to increase this standard by 50% first, that is, 80 square meters becomes 120 square meters. For each additional adult individual, the inner house area will also be increased by 50% of the maximum!
Of course, we can't go too far. It would be a bit strange to have only two baboons in a cage of more than 300 square meters after the area has been increased three or four times. By then, tourists will come not to see the animals, but to see the animals.
We were looking for animals, and we had no idea where the two baboons had gone.
Pei Qian doesn't mind this situation, but if it goes too far, the motivation will be too obvious, and the system may not agree. And if it is too outrageous, it may create a heated discussion on the Internet and accumulate unnecessary popularity inexplicably.
The cage area should be larger, but not too large and conspicuous.
The environment in the cage must be the best, that's for sure.
Next is the food, which is also served according to the highest standards and specifications. There is nothing to say.
With Tan Xinzhang watching, there will never be any deprivation of animal rations. Moreover, letting the animals eat better is nothing more than gaining more fat, and tourists can't see anything. This money can be said to be well spent.
Very secluded and well worth it.
Finally, there is the personnel.
Zoos require a large number of personnel, such as keepers, breeders, veterinarians, cleaners, etc.
These are all necessary supporting facilities for the zoo. How many animals there are and how many keepers and veterinarians are needed are almost certain. Even if Pei Qian wants to hire more, he can't hire too many. Even if he wants to pay them high wages,
There is always a limit.
Therefore, it is a bit difficult to spend more money in this area.
But Pei Qian has another way, which is to add more service staff!
Generally speaking, zoos don’t need many service staff. At most, they can just give directions to tourists. The animals are also kept in cages. Visitors can just pass by and take a look, and there is no need for service staff to guide them.
Pei Qian thought, although the zoo does not have this demand, it can create demand!
Nowadays, there is a kind of "indoor zoo", which mainly raises small animals. Some small animals, such as lizards, snakes, hamsters, owls, Anglo minks, etc., can be touched directly.
If tourists are allowed to touch these animals, wouldn’t there be staff to guide them?
Take owls as an example. There are owl cafes abroad and you can pet them, but you can only touch the feathers on your head and not anywhere else.
At that time, you can ask the staff to guide the tourists, first use hand sanitizer to disinfect their hands, and then touch the owl's head according to the staff's instructions, or you can wear a special arm guard and let the owl stand on it
, interact.
Two or three staff members are arranged to receive all the interactive animals here. Aren't there a lot of staff members at once?
These employees are usually very idle and receive high wages. Aren’t they perfect tool workers?
Of course, taking this into account, the shape of the zoo must also change. It is best to divide it into two different exhibition areas. One side displays wild animals that can only be viewed through cages, and the other side, like many indoor zoos, displays those wild animals.
Accompanied by staff, you can touch and interact with the animals up close.
There just happen to be a lot of abandoned factories in the old industrial area. It would be nice to transform them into indoor zoos.
In addition, a part of the space is taken out and scattered in various areas of the zoo to give tourists a rest, so as to avoid the dilemma of having nowhere to rest after visiting the zoo for a long time.
The key is to occupy more land!
When the time comes for such a large zoo, there won’t be many animals in total, and they will all be very common animals. Surely no one will come, right?
After roughly finalizing these points, Pei Qian nodded with satisfaction.
Well, not bad!
According to the current plan, even if it is far away, it will definitely not become popular within a year, right?
As long as the initial stage goes smoothly, it proves that this model is feasible, and you can continue to expand the scale, increase investment, and happily burn money.
Of course, what Pei Qian thought about was very crude and crude. After all, he was not a professional and did not understand the details. He formulated this strategy purely based on information found online.
Two days later, when Tan Xinzhang came to Jingzhou, Pei Qian planned to have a good chat with him. On the one hand, he would share his thoughts with him and determine the direction of the zoo. On the other hand, he would also ask for his opinion.
Let’s see if there are any better improvement plans for this zoo.