Jungle

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet (5)
  2. 7. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  3. 8. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping (plural) (5)
  4. 11. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  5. 13. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  6. 14. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  7. 15. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)

Down

  1. 1. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (plural) (7)
  2. 2. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)
  3. 4. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  4. 5. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (plural) (5)
  5. 6. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  6. 9. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  7. 10. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  8. 11. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  9. 12. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin (5)