Animals Animals And More Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Furry pet that barks and wags its tail (3)
  2. 6. A young waitress in a nightclub whose costume includes the tail and ears of a rabbit (plural) (7)
  3. 7. Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur (9)
  4. 8. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  5. 9. Social insect living in organized colonies (3)
  6. 12. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  7. 13. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  8. 14. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  2. 2. An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria (5)
  3. 4. Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long (8)
  4. 5. Big cat known as king of the jungle (plural) (5)
  5. 7. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  6. 10. Big cat with orange and black stripes (plural) (6)
  7. 11. Furry pet that purrs and chases mice (3)