Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

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

1.
o e
Animal you can ride that gallops
2.
F s
Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills
3.
B n
Any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
4.
e p
Woolly farm animal that says baa
5.
i d
Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
6.
t t l
7.
l s
Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle (plural)
8.
B r
Large furry animal that hibernates in winter
9.
D e
Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
10.
o k e
Long-eared animal related to the horse
11.
p a n t
Huge gray animal with a trunk
12.
o p o m u s
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
13.
L a
Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking
14.
o o
Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male
15.
l e
Hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse
16.
r e y
Large bird eaten at Thanksgiving
17.
G t
A person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn