Animal Encounters

2. a common furry meat-eating animal kept as a pet or for catching mice and rats
4. a large animal with four legs that people ride on or use for carrying things or pulling vehicles
6. a quite large animal with four legs that eats grass and leaves. The male has antlers (= wide horns like branches) . The female is called a hind or a doe and the male a stag or buck
7. a large pink, brown, or black farm animal with short legs and a curved tail, kept for its meat.
8. a large wild animal of the cat family with yellowish-brown fur that lives in Africa and southern Asia
10. a small animal with long ears and large front teeth that moves by jumping on its long back legs, or the meat of this animal eaten as food
12. an animal that lives in hot countries, has a long tail, and climbs trees. Primates (= the group of animals that are most like humans)

1. a reptile with a long body and no legs, sometimes they are venomous
3. a large female farm animal kept to produce meat and milk
5. a farm animal with thick wool that eats grass and is kept for its wool, skin, and meat
6. a common animal with four legs, especially kept by people as a pet or to hunt or guard things
7. a big animal with white fur that lives in the Arctic
9. a large African animal with a very long neck and long legs
11. a wild mammal belonging to the dog family that has a pointed face and ears, a wide tail covered in fur, and often reddish-brown fur