Animal Fun

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A person who is born while the sun is in Cancer (4)
  2. 4. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (6)
  3. 6. Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs (7)
  4. 7. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)
  5. 8. Scaly swimmer that breathes through gills (4)
  6. 9. Playful animal that swings through trees (6)

Down

  1. 2. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (4)
  2. 3. Voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having (3)
  3. 4. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled (6)
  4. 5. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (7)