Mammalian orders
Across
- 1. the most familiar primates with tails
- 3. active during the day
- 7. system, found in bats and dolphins, of producing sounds and listening for the echoes to detect objects
- 8. primates without a tail
- 9. enlarged incisor of an elephant
- 11. any whale that has teeth instead of baleen
- 15. tail designed for grasping objects
- 16. the worlds largest animal
- 17. fatty organ in a dolphins head through which sounds produced for echolocation are sent out
- 18. insect eating
- 19. black and white patterned whale that hunts seals and penguins
Down
- 2. the largest living marsupial
- 4. any whale whose mouth has rows of comblike baleen plates that are used to filter small prey out of the water
- 5. mammal that gives birth to immature young, which are nourished within a pouch
- 6. active at night
- 10. the only marsupial outside Australia
- 12. aquatic mammals called sea cows such as a manatees
- 13. pouch in which the young of a marsupial are nourished by the mothers milk
- 14. an unusual kind of primate that live only in Madagascar
- 16. flying mammals of order Chiroptera