Crocodiles
Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) are huge semiaquatic reptiles that stay during the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose individuals are taken into consideration proper crocodiles, is classed as a organic subfamily. A broader experience of the time period crocodile, Crocodylidae (which incorporates Tomistoma), isn't always used on this article. The time period crocodile right here applies to most effective the species withinside the subfamily of Crocodylinae. The time period is every so often used even greater loosely to consist of all extant individuals of the order Crocodilia, which incorporates the alligators and caimans (own circle of relatives Alligatoridae), the gharial and fake gharial (own circle of relatives Gavialidae), and all different residing and fossil Crocodylomorpha.

 Etymology
 The phrase "crocodile" comes from the Ancient Greek κροκÏŒδιλος (crocodilos), "lizard", used withinside the word ho krokódilos tou potamoú, "the lizard of the (Nile) river". There are numerous version Greek types of the phrase attested, which include the later shape κροκÏŒδειλος (crocodeilos) located stated in lots of English reference works. In the Koine Greek of Roman times, crocodilos and crocodeilos could were reported identically, and both or each can be the supply of the Latinized shape crocodÄ«lus utilized by the historical Romans. It has been suggested, however it isn't always positive that the phrase crocodilos or crocodeilos is a compound of krokè ("pebbles"), and drilos/dreilos ("worm"), even though drilos is most effective attested as a colloquial time period for "penis". It is ascribed to Herodotus, and supposedly describes the basking conduct of the Egyptian crocodile.   The shape crocodrillus is attested in Medieval Latin. It isn't always clean whether or not that is a medieval corruption or derives from opportunity Greco-Latin bureaucracy (past due Greek corcodrillos and corcodrillion are attested). A (further) corrupted shape crocodile is located in Old French and became borrowed into Middle English as crocodile(le). The Modern English shape crocodile became tailored immediately from the Classical Latin crocodiles with inside the sixteenth century, changing the sooner shape. The use of -y- with inside the medical call Crocodylus (and bureaucracy derived from it) is a corruption delivered through Laurenti (1768).

Biology and behaviour
Crocodilians are greater carefully associated with birds and dinosaurs than to maximum animals categorized as reptiles, the 3 households being protected withinside the organization Archosauria ('ruling reptiles'). Despite their prehistoric look, crocodiles are most of the greater biologically complicated reptiles. Unlike different reptiles, a crocodile has a cerebral cortex and a four-chambered heart. Crocodilians additionally have the purposeful equal of a diaphragm through incorporating muscle tissue used for aquatic locomotion into respiration. Salt glands are gift withinside the tongues of crocodiles and that they have a pore commencing at the floor of the tongue, a trait that separates them from alligators. Salt glands are dysfunctional in Alligatoridae. Their characteristic seems to be just like that of salt glands in marine turtles. Crocodiles do now no longer have sweat glands and launch warmth thru their mouths. They regularly sleep with their mouths open and might pant like a dog. Four species of freshwater crocodile climb bushes to indulge in regions missing a shoreline.

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