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#253 which has a four chamber heart?
answer is "a robin"
How can the answer not be reptiles when crocodiles have a four chamber heart as well?
 
Crocs are the only reptiles that have a 4 chambered heart, not all of them do
You wouldn't normally say that reptiles have four chambered heats, crocs are the exception
 
Here is the classic explanation to this question. All crocodiles are reptiles, but not all reptiles are crocodiles. So, most reptiles have 3 chambered hearts, but crocodilians have 4 chambered hearts.

Here are additional information for other organisms:

Amphibians have 3 chambered hearts
Turtles have 3 chambered hearts but with an incomplete wall in the single ventricle, so their hearts are functionally 4 chambered.
Birds and mammals have 4 chambered hearts.

I hope this helps!
 
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