ABSTRACT Anuran sound archives allow monitoring populations, studying animal communication, evolution, taxonomy, and natural history, besides evaluating historical events through the preservation of sound recordings. However, some of these materials are being lost because they are not deposited in archives. Thus, we investigated the percentage of herpetologists that do not deposit their recordings, their reason not to do so, and the number of recordings and financial funding lost. We observed that nearly 80% of herpetologists do not catalogue the sounds they collect, resulting in the loss of over six million dollars, only in Brazil, over the past decades. The main reasons for not cataloguing such records were lack of time, lack of expertise in cataloguing procedures, and the belief that it is not necessary. Over the past 18 years, the number of studies in which recordings were deposited increased; however, they never accounted for more than 50% of the total amount of studies. Leaving audiovisual files out of sound archives hinders public access, impairs scientific progress and increases the loss of information probability. Besides, as most of the bioacoustics studies are funded by taxpayer money (in Brazil), depositing recordings is also essential considering the proper allocation of public resources.

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如果不将 anuran 录音保存在科学收藏中，我们会损失多少？

摘要 Anuran 声音档案除了通过保存录音来评估历史事件外，还允许监测种群，研究动物的交流、进化、分类和自然历史。然而，其中一些材料正在丢失，因为它们没有存放在档案中。因此，我们调查了不存放录音的爬虫学家的百分比、他们不这样做的原因，以及丢失的录音和财务资金的数量。我们观察到，近 80% 的爬虫学家没有对他们收集的声音进行分类，导致过去几十年仅在巴西损失超过 600 万美元。不将此类记录编目的主要原因是时间不够、编目程序缺乏专业知识以及认为没有必要。在过去的 18 年里，保存录音的研究数量增加；然而，它们从未占研究总量的 50% 以上。将视听文件排除在声音档案之外会阻碍公众访问，损害科学进步并增加信息丢失的可能性。此外，由于大多数生物声学研究是由纳税人的钱资助的（在巴西），考虑到公共资源的适当分配，保存录音也很重要。