Big Cats Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Name of our female Amur Tiger
  2. 5. Scent-marking is a form of olfactory ____
  3. 7. Flagship species of the high mountains (two words)
  4. 9. Snow Leopards descend to approximately 4,800’ during __
  5. 13. Pumas geographic range is the ___
  6. 14. Dark-maned male lions enjoy longer ___ life-spans___
  7. 16. Markings on the back of the female lion's ____ are used as a signal in coordinating group hunting
  8. 17. lions and lionesses mate for this duration – (two words)
  9. 19. Name of our female puma
  10. 20. Cats that are able to roar have an incompletely ossified ___apparatus
Down
  1. 1. Name of our male jaguar
  2. 2. A lone male lion is called a _____
  3. 3. The jaguar is the only large, wide-ranging carnivore in the world with no ____
  4. 6. Name of our male African Lion
  5. 8. Tigers attack from the side or from the ___
  6. 9. Young pumas use loud, chirping ___ to call their mothers
  7. 10. Tigers are not good climbers. Adults only climb trees in __
  8. 11. Leopards kill larger animals by _____
  9. 12. Has the most powerful bite of all big cats
  10. 15. Name of our female jaguar
  11. 16. How many subspecies of leopards are there
  12. 18. A tiger depends more on sight and hearing than on ___ to hunt