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Warm-bodied fish

Tuna, some sharks and swordfish keep parts of their body warmer than the water, which gives them speed and range.

Also: regional endothermy

A few fish keep their muscles, eyes or brain warmer than the sea around them. Tuna and mako and great white sharks have a net of blood vessels, the rete mirabile, in which cold blood coming from the gills is warmed by blood leaving the muscles, so the heat stays inside. A bluefin tuna's muscles may run 10 degrees Celsius or more above the water. Swordfish and marlin warm only their eyes and brain with a special heater organ. The opah, studied in 2015, warms its whole body.

See also

Cold-blooded Pelagic Body shape

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