Animals and Pets

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric (4)
  2. 4. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  3. 6. A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (8)
  4. 7. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  5. 8. Social insect living in organized colonies (3)

Down

  1. 1. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  2. 3. Large American feline resembling a lion (6)
  3. 5. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)