My favorite Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Quacking water bird (4)
  2. 6. Long-eared animal that hops (6)
  3. 8. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible (5)
  4. 9. Domestic swine (3)
  5. 10. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  6. 11. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  7. 14. Striped African relative of the horse (5)

Down

  1. 1. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  2. 3. Young domestic cat (6)
  3. 4. The fur of the North American racoon (7)
  4. 5. An inexperienced young person (5)
  5. 7. Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains (7)
  6. 8. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  7. 12. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  8. 13. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (4)
  9. 15. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)