Animals Around the World

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (6)
  2. 6. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin (10)
  3. 7. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  4. 8. An adult female of domestic cattle. (3)
  5. 11. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  6. 12. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  7. 14. The soft brown fur of the ___ (6)

Down

  1. 2. Adult male chicken (7)
  2. 3. Farm bird that lays eggs (7)
  3. 4. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  4. 5. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  5. 7. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (5)
  6. 9. A very large person (5)
  7. 10. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  8. 11. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  9. 13. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)