Kinds of Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Largest anthropoid ape (7)
  2. 7. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (plural) (11)
  3. 10. Animal you can ride that gallops (plural) (6)
  4. 12. Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic (5)
  5. 13. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  6. 14. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (plural) (7)
  7. 16. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (plural) (4)

Down

  1. 1. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles (6)
  2. 2. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  3. 4. Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests (plural) (8)
  4. 5. Striped African relative of the horse (plural) (6)
  5. 6. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  6. 8. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural) (7)
  7. 9. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (5)
  8. 11. Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer (5)
  9. 15. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)