Animal fun

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Long-eared animal related to the horse (6)
  2. 6. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (plural) (4)
  3. 8. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (7)
  4. 9. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)
  5. 11. A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia (8)
  6. 12. Small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping (6)
  7. 15. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  8. 16. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (5)

Down

  1. 1. A person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn (4)
  2. 2. Musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States (6)
  3. 3. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  4. 5. Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs (8)
  5. 7. Woolly farm animal that says baa (5)
  6. 10. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  7. 13. Long-eared animal that hops (6)
  8. 14. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)