“…Selective brain cooling has been observed in mammals, birds and reptiles (Caputa, 1980;Baker, 1982). Artiodactyls, such as sheep (Baker & Hayward, 1968a), goats (Taylor, 1966), and reindeer (Johnsen, Blix & Mercer, 1986), and carnivores, such as dogs (Magilton & Swift, 1969;Baker, Chapman & Nathanson, 1974) and cats (Baker, 1972), keep brain temperature lower than deep body temperature by virtue of possessing a carotid rete, which allows carotid arterial blood flowing to the brain to be cooled by venous blood draining the moist surface of the nasal mucosa (Baker, 1983). The ophthalmic rete fulfils a similar role in birds (Kilgore, 1976;Kilgore, Boggs & Birchard, 1979).…”