Wild Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)
  2. 4. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having (3)
  3. 7. The fur of the North American racoon (7)
  4. 8. Brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins (8)
  5. 10. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (6)
  6. 13. White ___ of Arctic regions (9)
  7. 16. Any of several large eared ___ of the northern Pacific related to fur ___ but lacking their (7)

Down

  1. 2. A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit (6)
  2. 3. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  3. 5. Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles (7)
  4. 6. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (4)
  5. 9. Large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable (8)
  6. 11. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America (8)
  7. 12. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (7)
  8. 14. Short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears (4)
  9. 15. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)