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How does a reptile get its oxygen?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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13y ago

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Crocodiles and alligators breathe in the water by raising their head and snout above the waters surface. Since they do not have gills, they have to hold their breath underwater. When hunting, only their eyes and snout are visible, making them look like a piece of driftwood.

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9y ago

Alligators breathe through cavities in their nose located above the secondary plate. The air is taken in by a special valve that creates a barrier from the water that fills the alligator's mouth.

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13y ago

Crocodiles breathe air. They have nostrils at the end of their long jaws. They breathe while most of the body is under water, and their nostril's are above the water. When their nostrils go under the water, they hold their breath. There is a limit they can stay under water without breathing.

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Crocodiles possess lungs and breathe air, it is only that they can hold the air for hours that differs them from many other animals.

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14y ago

They come up and breath good idea eh??

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they breath through lungs like mammals.

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