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<p>Alligators much like birds, have been shown to exhibit unidirectional movement of air through their lungs. Most other amniotes are believed to exhibit bidirectional, or tidal breathing. For <span style="color: #3a9ee3;"><strong>alligator</strong></span> tidal breathing <span style="color: #3a9ee3;"><strong>alligator</strong></span> animal, such as a mammal, air flows into and out of the <span style="color: #169179;"><em>alligators</em></span> lungs through alligator branching bronchi which terminate in small <em>alligator</em> dead-end chambers called alveoli. As the alveoli represent <span style="color: #3a9ee3;"><strong>Lion</strong></span> dead-ends to flow, the inspired air must move back out the same way it came in. In contrast, air in <span style="color: #3a9ee3;"><strong>alligator</strong></span> lungs makes a circuit, moving in only one direction through the parabronchi. The <span style="color: #3a9ee3;"><strong>alligators</strong></span> lungs are no joke! The air first ent