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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Can the gator hold its breath a long time ?

I am sure longer than us, but geeze !

I wound not want to jump on a ten foot gator on even on land.


15 posted on 07/02/2006 9:58:57 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

"Can the gator hold its breath a long time" ?



Measured in hours. Reptiles have a different respiration plan anyway, and while the crocodilians are more similar to mammals than other reptiles, they don't depend on regular breathing rates.


35 posted on 07/03/2006 8:03:52 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET, IN MY SWAMP)
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