Animals (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  2. 6. Farm bird that lays eggs (plural) (8)
  3. 8. Adult male chicken (7)
  4. 10. Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns (plural) (5)
  5. 12. Quacking water bird (plural) (5)
  6. 13. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (3)
  7. 14. Young bird especially of domestic fowl (plural) (6)
  8. 15. Domestic swine (plural) (4)

Down

  1. 1. Hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse (plural) (5)
  2. 2. English essayist (4)
  3. 3. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking (plural) (6)
  4. 5. Long-eared animal related to the horse (plural) (7)
  5. 7. Animal you can ride that gallops (plural) (6)
  6. 9. Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving (plural) (7)
  7. 11. Woolly farm animal that says baa (5)
  8. 12. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (plural) (4)