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