Animals (2)

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
o n e y
Playful animal that swings through trees
2.
a l a
Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat
3.
d o l p h
Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas
4.
w o l
5.
h i m p n e e
Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests
6.
s a f i s
Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
7.
p d a
Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet
8.
g o r l l
Largest anthropoid ape
9.
s e a a n e m
10.
f i s
Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills
11.
a t t s n a e
Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that ___ when shaken
12.
b l e w h l
Largest mammal ever known
13.
l i z a d
14.
f r g
Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping
15.
p y t n
A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
16.
m u e
Small rodent that squeaks, or a computer pointer
17.
e c o
Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards
18.
k n g a r
Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful
19.
c o o t
A forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires
20.
c i n c h i l