Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Big cat known as king of the jungle (plural) (5)
  2. 7. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  3. 9. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (plural) (5)
  4. 11. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (plural) (8)
  5. 12. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin (5)
  6. 13. Animal you can ride that gallops (plural) (6)
  7. 14. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)

Down

  1. 1. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (3)
  2. 2. Largest anthropoid ape (7)
  3. 4. Long legless reptile that slithers (plural) (6)
  4. 5. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  5. 6. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (plural) (8)
  6. 8. Long-eared animal related to the horse (6)
  7. 10. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  8. 11. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)