I Love Animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

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

1.
h i p o p o t s
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
2.
f a s
Canine tooth of a carnivorous animal (plural)
3.
a n i m l
Living things like dogs and birds
4.
g i r f f
Tallest living quadruped
5.
e l e h n
Huge gray animal with a trunk
6.
p e t
A domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement (plural)
7.
t a i
The time of the last part of something
8.
f r e t
Large area covered with trees
9.
h b i r n t
10.
p a w
A clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped (plural)
11.
p n t h r
A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard
12.
c a i v o e
A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
13.
b l e h a l s
14.
h r b i v o
Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants
15.
o t p u s
Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
16.
s a l s
Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (plural)
17.
o m n r e
A person who eats all kinds of foods
18.
t e n a c e
Something that acts like a ___ in its ability to grasp and hold (plural)
19.
a n i i a n
20.
s h e d g
21.
e e r i c
22.
r e t l e
Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class ___ including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards
23.
w o l
Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt (plural)
24.
e e s
The fatty flesh of eel (plural)