African Wildlife
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
R
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n
Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin
2.
W
a
t
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g
African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks
4.
H
p
p
An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
5.
l
i
o
Big cat known as king of the jungle
6.
M
o
g
s
e
Agile grizzled Old World viverrine
7.
C
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a
Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
8.
c
e
e
t
a
Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws
9.
H
y
a
Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
10.
E
e
h
a
t
Huge gray animal with a trunk
11.
l
e
a
r
d
Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots
13.
Z
e
b
Striped African relative of the horse
14.
G
a
z
e
e
Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
17.
B
g
o
Large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral
21.
G
o
i
l
l
Largest anthropoid ape
22.
M
e
r
k
a
A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes
23.
S
a
e
An artist's brush made of ___ hairs
24.
I
m
a
a
African antelope with ridged curved horns