Nocturnal Creatures

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)
  2. 5. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  3. 7. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)
  4. 8. The fur of the North American racoon (7)
  5. 9. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (plural) (4)
  6. 10. A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living (plural) (8)
  7. 12. Any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands (9)
  8. 15. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes (plural) (4)
  9. 16. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion (5)

Down

  1. 2. Big cat with orange and black stripes (plural) (6)
  2. 3. Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful (8)
  3. 4. Big cat known as king of the jungle (plural) (5)
  4. 6. Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots (plural) (8)
  5. 11. Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites (8)
  6. 13. Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails (7)
  7. 14. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)