Rabbits & Bats Crossword
Across
- 3. made from the same stuff and parts – your arm and a bat’s wing
- 5. born in an advanced state of development
- 6. membrane between legs
- 9. rabbits tend to be this, not so much the hares
- 10. ear lobe; outer ear
- 12. World North and South America
- 16. cottontail of open, grassy areas
- 18. genus of big brown bat
- 21. Neither bats nor rabbits are these!
- 22. bats eat these and therefore we LOVE bats
- 23. how lagomorphs digest
- 24. may spend the winter in a hollow tree or you attic
- 26. blind pouch off the intestines
- 27. bat that may roost in your attic for the winter
- 29. lagomorphs have two pairs of these in the upper jaw
- 30. place a species needs in which to live
- 32. order of bats
- 34. northern lagomorh
- 36. genus of little brown bat
- 37. collar bone
- 38. lacking oxygen
Down
- 1. family of micro-bats
- 2. born naked and helpless
- 4. cottontail genus
- 7. to pick out from a tangled background
- 8. migrates south for the winter
- 11. sounds too high for humans to hear
- 13. using sound and echoes to “see”
- 14. cottontail of brush and shrubby habitats
- 15. breaking down organic molecules without oxygen
- 17. migrates south for the winter
- 19. only family of New England lagomorphs
- 20. name of the cecum in humans…silly humans
- 25. changing a habitat so that some species can no longer live in it
- 28. turns white in the winter and brown in the summer
- 31. order of hares and rabbits
- 33. World Africa, Asia, Europe
- 35. syndrome killing many bat colonies in the northeast shrubland habitat of S. transitionalis