Mammal Search

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  2. 5. A very large person (5)
  3. 6. Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail (8)
  4. 9. Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long (8)
  5. 10. An adult female of domestic cattle. (3)
  6. 12. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  7. 13. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (6)
  8. 15. Small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping (6)

Down

  1. 1. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  2. 3. A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia (8)
  3. 4. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)
  4. 7. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward (8)
  5. 8. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  6. 11. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America (7)
  7. 14. Any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns (5)
  8. 16. A long-tailed rodent, usually larger than a mouse. (3)