Animals are Cool

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur (5)
  2. 6. The fur of the North American racoon (7)
  3. 7. A butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus (9)
  4. 10. Blue North American songbird (8)
  5. 11. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  6. 12. Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail (8)
  7. 14. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  8. 15. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)

Down

  1. 1. Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk (8)
  2. 2. A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia (8)
  3. 3. Social bee often domesticated for the ___ it produces (8)
  4. 5. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  5. 8. A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (8)
  6. 9. European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot (7)
  7. 12. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  8. 13. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)