Animal tracks

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America (5)
  2. 2. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  3. 4. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  4. 5. A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival (6)
  5. 8. Leather made from ___'s hide (9)
  6. 9. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all (3)
  7. 10. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards (5)
  8. 11. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (6)

Down

  1. 1. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  2. 3. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (6)
  3. 4. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  4. 6. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back (6)
  5. 7. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)