Gotta have heart! Crocodilians bypass their lungs to improve digestion

As perhaps confirmed by their ubiquity on nature cable channels, crocodiles are among nature’s most fearsome predators. When the opportunity arises, crocodilians will gorge, voluntarily consuming meals weighing 23% of their own body weight. This is analogous to a 130 -pound woman eating, at one sitting, a hamburger weighing 30 pounds. But what to do with all of that food" If they do not digest their meal quickly, crocodilians risk death from within, or if they are young, by predators.

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