Animals & Pets Galore

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all (3)
  2. 7. Large furry animal that hibernates in winter (4)
  3. 8. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  4. 10. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)
  5. 12. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled (6)
  6. 13. Big cat with orange and black stripes (5)
  7. 15. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male (5)

Down

  1. 1. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers (4)
  2. 2. Either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts (9)
  3. 4. An intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped (6)
  4. 5. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)
  5. 6. Musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States (6)
  6. 8. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws (7)
  7. 9. Long legless reptile that slithers (5)
  8. 11. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  9. 14. Big cat known as king of the jungle (4)