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>Why Crocomire was in the unsuitable and mostly heated Norfair region is unknown. However, it should be noted that the lava present in the chamber is more intense than the lava seen everywhere else in upper Norfair,
>this superheated lava is commonly found only in Ridley's Hideout, therefore insinuating that Crocomire was possibly adapted to upper Norfair's more common lava and heated regions.

He really didn't, but Samus would have settled for pushing him out of the way, it's just that he got unlucky with the environment.
It was that or experience planetary annihilation anyway.