Animals (2)
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
e
l
p
h
a
Huge gray animal with a trunk
3.
f
r
g
Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural)
4.
t
i
g
Big cat with orange and black stripes
5.
z
e
r
Striped African relative of the horse
6.
p
e
g
i
n
Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet
7.
d
o
p
h
n
Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas
8.
h
y
e
Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
9.
g
r
i
l
a
Largest anthropoid ape (plural)
10.
d
r
g
o
n
A creature of Teutonic mythology (plural)
11.
m
e
e
k
t
A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes
12.
o
s
r
i
c
Fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet
13.
m
o
k
e
Playful animal that swings through trees
14.
g
i
r
f
e
Tallest living quadruped
15.
c
a
e
l
Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions (plural)
16.
w
h
a
A very large person
17.
h
i
p
p
o
a
u
s
Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
18.
d
n
k
y
Long-eared animal related to the horse
19.
s
r
k
s
Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough (plural)
20.
c
o
c
d
l
e
Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body
21.
s
a
k
s
Long legless reptile that slithers (plural)