Fonoteca Zoológica Gabriel Skuk: criação e divulgação da primeira fonoteca zoológica do estado de Alagoas

Abstract

Extinction rates are occurring at a never registered speed and researchers suggest that we are towards the sixth major mass extinction. Many species are being lost even before they are known by science. Thus, biological collections are essential as they store and manage information about the biodiversity of a place. Zoological fonotecas, in particular, safeguard information to which conventional collections cannot store, such as the sound that animals produce. Thus, this work had as main objective to assist in the creation, dissemination, and management of the first zoological fonoteca of the State of Alagoas, a new collection of the Museum of Natural History of the Federal University of Alagoas. Storage and archive protocols and spreadsheets were developed based on the already well -consolidated zoological fonoteca documents. The fonoteca was named “Gabriel Skuk Zoological Phonoteca of the Natural History Museum of the Federal University of Alagoas”. In addition, a logo was developed and an account linked to a Google Drive for file storage was opened. A tab on the Integrative Biology Laboratory website and a YouTube channel were created to share all information related to Fonoteca's deposit and file request. The deposited files were listed and had a unique code associated with each of this file. For the dissemination of the fonoteca was created an Instagram profile and was published for three months, three posts per month. The publications were related to the themes of bioacoustic, zoological fonotecas and animal acoustic communication. The adhesion of followers, range of posts and engagement in the posts were analyzed. Sixty files, accounting for 368 megabytes and 252 minutes were listed, of which anuran amphibians and the birds were the taxonomic groups represented. In total, 26 species, 17 genera and 12 families were registered, two species are threatened of extinction. The sound archives came from the states of Alagoas and Pernambuco. Related to the dissemination of the Gabriel Skuk Zoological Fonoteca, 259 followers were recorded, with the reach of 1,959 accounts over the three months of standard publication. Regarding interaction with posts, the ones that best recorded public interest were publications aimed at information about biology and animal behavior. With the creation of the fonoteca it is possible to develop even more research with bioacoustic in the state of Alagoas, opening avenues and facilitating research among students and researchers in the region. Instagram has been shown to be a good disclosure tool for the fonoteca, as well as scientific dissemination in general. Since the fonoteca is already active, the collection is expected to expand more and more and that the dissemination of it never stops, inserting itself in new spaces and expanding its accessibility.