Animal Mania

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  2. 7. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled (6)
  3. 9. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa (12)
  4. 12. Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs (8)
  5. 13. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward (8)
  6. 16. A mammal with wings formed from its forelimbs. (3)

Down

  1. 1. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  2. 2. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (plural) (10)
  3. 4. Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur (5)
  4. 5. Striped African relative of the horse (plural) (6)
  5. 6. Large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere (8)
  6. 8. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  7. 10. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (plural) (5)
  8. 11. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  9. 14. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia (4)
  10. 15. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)