According to the Northwest Marine Conservation Initiative, the nets are responsible for killing tens of thousands of marine life, mammals and birds every year.
Plants also provide habitats and food for mammals, birds and invertebrates around the globe.
And, while copia and its close relatives are not normally found in anything with more backbone than a reptile, its activities may hold clues about the behaviour of some of the other, more complicated, transposable elements that are found in those more complicated vertebrates, the mammals and the birds.
Prof Barnosky and colleagues compared the rates of known species extinctions in mammals, birds and amphibians during the last five centuries with those estimated from the fossil record during the previous Big Five die-outs of the geological past.
Burmese pythons, which can grow up to 23ft (7m) long, eat small mammals, birds and alligators.
Mvogbetsi Zoo is home to 35 chimpanzees, six gorillas, 10 other primates in addition to other wild mammals, reptiles and birds.
This suggests than it may have something to do with the fact that the sex-determining chromosome is carried by males in mammals and females in birds.
Slugs and seals prospered but bees, birds and mammals struggled, with bats particularly hard hit.
Much of that increase has been in a herbicide called glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup and generic versions of it) and because glyphosate has negligible toxicity to birds, invertebrates and mammals, it has a much lower Environmental Impact Quotient (EIQ) than the herbicides it replaces.
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Spinosad is an environmental "reduced-risk" oral insecticide that has little effect on other insects, birds and mammals.
It revealed, contrary to the Chernobyl Forum's 2005 report, that biodiversity in insects, birds and mammals is declining.
Patterns of species diversity are biased: they are based on the species we know about, which tend to be large, visible animals like butterflies, birds and mammals.
Last year a new strain of H3N8 flu jumped from birds to mammals and was responsible for the death of more than 160 seals off the New England coast.
Dr Andrew Kitchener, curator of birds and mammals at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where the remains are kept, said to date it was Scotland's only identified resident polar bear.
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They concluded that such upwellings might indeed account for the catastrophic fish deaths, but that they would not explain the deaths of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, since these animals breathe air rather than relying on dissolved oxygen.
Some birds and sea mammals affected by the spill are likely to die far offshore and never be detected, scientists say.
Birds and certain smaller mammals such as rabbits and raccoons will usually go high to live in trees or on drift piles, but larger mammals have to clear out, according to Ribbeck.
The site is globally important for threatened seabirds and migratory birds, a number of salmonid species, and for marine mammals including Steller's sea lion and some cetacean species.
Soon the night air rings with the notes of swooning birds and the thuds of mammals plodding about nearby.
In these characteristics, dinosaur bones are similar to those both of mammals and of dinosaurs' modern descendants, the birds, and dissimilar to those of both ancient and modern crocodiles.
Some 42 other species including insects and birds, as well as other mammals use at least some aspect of bodily symmetry to help choose their mates.
The problem has long been recognized, and the aforementioned Habitats Directive -- a corollary of the 1979 Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats -- introduced a range of measures aimed at protecting endangered species (including plants, birds and fish as well as mammals).
Every year thousands of birds, seals, dolphins and marine mammals die by swallowing or becoming entangled in rubbish, the organisation said.
If one looks at the IUCN Red List, the global authority on threatened species, the concentrations are much higher, with 83% of the most threatened birds, 82% of the most threatened mammals, and 90% of the most threatened amphibians concentrated in the Hotspots.
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It sounds as if when her parents told her about the birds and the bees, they never got to the mammals.
Remember, with respect to birds, or fish, or marine mammals, or many insects, even amphibians and reptiles, for example: they do not acknowledge arbitrary human boundaries.
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The mammals are not native to the isles and have been blamed for preying on the eggs of ground-nesting wading birds.
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Vestiges such as the stumpy wings of flightless birds, and the hairs that prickle on human skin just like the rising hackles on furry mammals, are further testimony to our shared origins.
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