Animals (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)
  2. 4. Long-eared animal that hops (6)
  3. 5. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  4. 8. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)
  5. 9. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  6. 10. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  7. 11. Huge gray animal with a trunk (plural) (9)
  8. 13. Domestic swine (3)
  9. 14. A person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn (4)

Down

  1. 1. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (4)
  2. 2. A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over (4)
  3. 3. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (plural) (7)
  4. 6. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  5. 7. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  6. 8. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  7. 12. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)