why does a crocodile have a 4 chambered heart ? i am asking this because i learnt reptiles and ampibians have 3 chambered heart

simply why all other animals are different from their own class or order. Adaptation. The crocodiles body is much larger then any other reptile, and along to adjust with the climate it lives in, circulation may have to have been modified so that organism could flourish in that environment. All crocodiles have a fully-divided 4 chambered heart, and in fact are the only animals known to have active control over heart valves (cog-wheel valve leading to the pulmonary artery, and foramen of Panizza joining the two main aortas from the ventricles).  This enables them to alter circulation through the heart during diving, basically diverting the pulmonary flow into the systemic one to concentrate blood into the essential areas when it isn't being renewed.  Crocodiles also have haemoglobin with very high affinity for oxygen (so much so that Hb Scuba has been engineered from crocodile haemoglobin as a potential solution to supplying additional oxygen to heart transplant patients during surgery).More circulation for more body perhaps, but most likely evolution of the organism to adapt

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size?

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reptiles have 3 chambered heart that is 2 auricles and 1 ventricles .in them the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood gets mixed up in ventricles which reduces the efficiency of the circulatory system. 
     During the course of evolution the need for well seperated and more efficiency circulatory system was felt due to energy expenditure.
  so the crocodiles and other species of their order developed a heart with 2 auricles and 2 ventricles so that the pure and impure blood is separated throughout the body and the heart.
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