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Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  2. 4. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  3. 5. Animal you can ride that gallops (plural) (6)
  4. 7. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  5. 8. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class ___ including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards (plural) (8)
  6. 9. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  7. 10. The mother of your father or mother (7)
  8. 12. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States (7)

Down

  1. 1. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  2. 2. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (plural) (7)
  3. 5. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail (plural) (5)
  4. 6. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  5. 9. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair (plural) (7)
  6. 11. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)