Cool Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  2. 7. Huge gray animal with a trunk (plural) (9)
  3. 9. An inexperienced young person (plural) (7)
  4. 11. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (plural) (5)
  5. 13. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles (plural) (7)
  6. 14. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  7. 15. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  8. 16. Big cat known as king of the jungle (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Tallest living quadruped (plural) (8)
  2. 2. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (plural) (8)
  3. 4. Young domestic cat (plural) (7)
  4. 5. Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (plural) (8)
  5. 6. Quacking water bird (plural) (5)
  6. 8. Big cat with orange and black stripes (plural) (6)
  7. 10. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (plural) (5)
  8. 12. A range horse of the western United States (plural) (6)