Animal world

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  2. 4. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions (5)
  3. 6. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)
  4. 7. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa (12)
  5. 9. Small lynx of North America (6)
  6. 10. Burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates (9)
  7. 12. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  8. 13. Large American feline resembling a lion (6)
  9. 14. Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws (6)
  10. 15. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)

Down

  1. 1. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)
  2. 3. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles (6)
  3. 4. Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests (10)
  4. 5. Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots (7)
  5. 8. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  6. 11. The soft brown fur of the ___ (6)