Jungle animals

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  2. 4. Large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots (7)
  3. 5. African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks (7)
  4. 7. Largest anthropoid ape (7)
  5. 8. Tallest living quadruped (7)
  6. 10. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)
  7. 11. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  8. 12. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  9. 13. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa (12)

Down

  1. 1. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles (6)
  2. 3. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard (7)
  3. 6. Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes (7)
  4. 9. Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin (10)
  5. 14. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  6. 15. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  7. 16. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)