Prey Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  2. 6. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (3)
  3. 7. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
  4. 9. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (3)
  5. 10. Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward (8)
  6. 13. Beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur (7)

Down

  1. 1. Any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns (5)
  2. 2. The fur of the North American racoon (7)
  3. 3. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  4. 5. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  5. 8. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws (3)
  6. 11. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (7)
  7. 12. A forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (6)