Fauna

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A male deer, especially an adult male red deer (4)
  2. 4. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  3. 6. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  4. 7. Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America (5)
  5. 11. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat (5)
  6. 12. A person who is born while the sun is in ___ (8)
  7. 14. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  8. 15. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward (8)

Down

  1. 1. Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur (5)
  2. 3. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  3. 5. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while (3)
  4. 8. Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails (7)
  5. 9. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  6. 10. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America (8)
  7. 12. Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (5)
  8. 13. A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit (6)