Across
- 3. (n) - a group of animals that hunt together or are kept for hunting
- 5. (adj) - (of animals) kept on farms or as pets; not wild
- 6. (adj) - (of animals, birds, etc.) not afraid of people, and used to living with them = wild
- 7. (n, pl) - openings on the side of a fish’s head that it breathes through
- 8. (n) - a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
- 9. (n) - an animal or a person that eats all types of food, especially both plants and meat
- 10. (n) - the row of small bones that are connected together down the middle of the back = backbone
- 12. (n) - the place where a particular type of animal or plant is normally found
- 14. (n) - one of the many soft light parts covering a bird’s body
- 15. (n) - the hard pointed or curved outer part of a bird’s mouth
- 16. (n) - [uncountable] the soft thick mass of hair that grows on the body of some animals
- 17. (n) - belonging to the group of animals that carry their young in a pocket of skin called a pouch
- 20. (adj) - a bird’s or an animal’s (such as a duck or frog) feet that has pieces of skin between the toes
- 22. (n) - (formal or specialist) a baby or very young child
- 23. (n) - an animal that lived in the past that a modern animal has developed from
Down
- 1. (n, pl) - [countable] thin plates of hard material that cover the skin of many fish and reptiles
- 2. (adj) - (used especially about groups of animals, plants, etc.) at risk of no longer existing
- 4. (n) - any animal that eats meat
- 11. (adj) - (of animals) active at night
- 13. (n) - any animal that gives birth to live young, not eggs, and feeds its young on milk.
- 15. (n) - a particular type of animal that has been developed by people in a certain way, especially a type of dog, cat or farm animal
- 18. (n) - any animal that has cold blood and skin covered in scales, and that lays eggs
- 19. (n) - an animal that kills and eats other animals
- 21. (n) - one of the sharp curved nails on the end of an animal’s or a bird’s foot
- 24. (n) - a young bear, lion, fox, etc.
