Across
- 4. loose skin behind an animals next often used to handling and restrain animals
- 7. eating of feces
- 8. gnawing herbivorous mammals having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw one behind the other and comprising the rabbits, hares, and pikas.
- 9. meat eater
- 10. carnivore family that also includes weasels, mink, otter and skunks. Species in this family have scent glands that produce strong smelling musk.
- 12. a muscular organ that crushes the food up with the digestive juices into a fluid mass. The gizzard contains pieces of grit that the bird has eaten to assist the crushing.
- 13. is the band just above a birds beak where their nostrils are found
- 14. (Two words)ulceration of the foot pads and foot area caused by the animals body weight pressing down on the foot; commonly seen in rabbits housed on wire caged floors.
Down
- 1. storage facility, it does not digest the food
- 2. (Two words) Rabbit nocturnal feces that is looser than normal and contains vitamins and nutrients the the rabbit consumes
- 3. group of parrot-like birds that includes parrots, budgerigars, cockatiels (among others) that have a strong curved beak and tow forward -facing toes and two rear-facing toes.
- 5. (Two words) when patches of fur is lost from the chinchilla coat to avoid predators in nature.
- 6. perching birds, most songs birds (finches, sparrows) have three forward facing toes and one rear- facing toe.
- 7. becoming active at twilight or before sunrise.
- 11. word derived from a Latin verb that means to gnaw.
- 15. any of several short-tailed South American rodents