Endangered Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)
  2. 4. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests (10)
  3. 6. Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots (7)
  4. 7. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  5. 10. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  6. 11. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  7. 13. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  8. 14. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (6)
  9. 15. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)

Down

  1. 1. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  2. 3. Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America (4)
  3. 5. A large white-furred mammal native to the Arctic. (9)
  4. 8. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (7)
  5. 9. Largest anthropoid ape (7)
  6. 12. Musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States (6)