Zoo Animals
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
f
m
n
o
Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill
2.
b
s
Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (plural)
3.
g
a
f
Tallest living quadruped
4.
l
s
Big cat known as king of the jungle (plural)
5.
t
r
s
Big cat with orange and black stripes (plural)
6.
s
a
Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (plural)
7.
k
g
r
o
Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful
8.
h
p
An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
10.
g
r
i
s
Largest anthropoid ape (plural)
11.
c
b
An awkward and inexperienced youth (plural)
12.
t
u
t
Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (plural)
13.
p
i
n
Large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish
14.
p
i
n
Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet
15.
m
g
o
e
Agile grizzled Old World viverrine
16.
p
l
Located at or near or coming from the earth's poles
17.
r
h
o
r
s
Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin
18.
e
e
h
a
Huge gray animal with a trunk
19.
s
e
a
Any of several large eared ___ of the northern Pacific related to fur ___ but lacking their
20.
b
b
a
Small lynx of North America
22.
p
r
t
Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic
23.
z
r
Striped African relative of the horse
24.
m
e
k
A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes