Kylie's Missing Letters

Name: ______________________ Date: ____________

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

a m a i

Burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates

a l a r

Leather made from ___'s hide

a o d a

Large arboreal boa of tropical South America

b r

Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

b a

Large furry animal that hibernates in winter

c c d e

Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body

d e

Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers

e p h n

Huge gray animal with a trunk

f r

Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping

10.

f a n o

Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill

11.

g t

A person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn

12.

g o l

Largest anthropoid ape

13.

g r a

Tallest living quadruped

14.

g z l

Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes

15.

h e r

Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches

16.

i g a

Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back