Animals (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  2. 7. A creature of Teutonic mythology (plural) (7)
  3. 8. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  4. 9. A very large person (5)
  5. 11. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  6. 12. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  7. 13. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa (12)
  8. 15. Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions (plural) (6)
  9. 16. Long legless reptile that slithers (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 2. Largest anthropoid ape (plural) (8)
  2. 3. Long-eared animal related to the horse (6)
  3. 4. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  4. 5. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)
  5. 6. Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet (7)
  6. 10. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion (5)
  7. 14. A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes (7)