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Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  2. 6. Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill (8)
  3. 7. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)
  4. 8. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  5. 11. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa (12)
  6. 13. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  7. 14. Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs (8)
  8. 15. Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits (9)
  9. 16. Fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet (7)

Down

  1. 1. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm (4)
  2. 3. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong (5)
  3. 4. Either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts (9)
  4. 5. Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber (6)
  5. 9. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin (10)
  6. 10. White ___ of Arctic regions (9)
  7. 12. Striped African relative of the horse (5)