Jungle Animals

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Across
  1. 2. - a small parrot with predominantly green plumage and a long tail.
  2. 4. - a large long-legged burrowing rodent related to the guinea pig.
  3. 6. a semi aquatic snake of the boa family that may grow to a great size.
  4. 8. - a heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears.
  5. 12. - a medium-sized wild cat that has a tawny yellow coat marked with black blotches and spots.
  6. 15. a nocturnal omnivorous mammal that has large claws for digging and a body covered in bony plates.
  7. 17. a large heavily built cat that has a yellowish-brown coat with black spots, found mainly in the dense forest of Central and South America.
  8. 18. a mammal that feeds on ants and termites and has a long snout and sticky tongue.
  9. 19. a large mainly solitary arboreal ape with long reddish hair, long arms, and hooked hands and feet.
Down
  1. 1. a South American mammal that resembles a giant long-legged guinea pig.
  2. 3. a bearlike arboreal Australian marsupial that has thick gray fur and feeds on eucalyptus leaves.
  3. 5. powerfully built great ape with a large head and short neck/largest living primate.
  4. 7. an arboreal primate with a pointed snout and typically a long tail, found only in Madagascar.
  5. 9. - a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws.
  6. 10. - a large rodent with defensive spines or quills on the body and tail.
  7. 11. - a large long-tailed parrot with brightly colored plumage.
  8. 13. - a large species of freshwater fish in the family Serrasalmidae.
  9. 14. a great ape with large ears and lighter skin on the face/show advanced behavior such as making and using tools.
  10. 16. - a large tropical American lizard with a spiny crest along the back and greenish coloration.
  11. 19. - large browsing mammal of the giraffe family that lives in the rain forest of northern Democratic Republic of Congo.