Oct 4 - World Animal Day!

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Across
  1. 4. What royal savannah-dweller is the national animal of England and Kenya?
  2. 5. What busy builder is the national animal of Canada?
  3. 6. What duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying aquatic creature is one of the only venomous mammals and is found only in Australia?
  4. 8. What apex predator was vilified in the film Jaws?
  5. 10. Which great ape is the most endangered?
  6. 12. When you're down by the sea and an eel bites your knee, that's a ____.
  7. 14. What mammal is loaned out by the Chinese government to zoos around the world?
  8. 15. What scavenging bird went extinct in the wild in 1987 but was reintroduced in the 1990s after a concerted rehabilitation effort in California?
  9. 16. What famous lupine is the national animal of both Turkey and Italy?
  10. 17. What is the world's rarest marine mammal?
  11. 19. What adorable desert-dwelling cat-dog is the national animal of Algeria?
Down
  1. 1. What fictional creature is the national animal of Scotland?
  2. 2. What is a group of lions called?
  3. 3. What easy-going tree-dweller is the national animal of Costa Rica?
  4. 4. What type of monkey is featured prominently in the film Madagascar?
  5. 5. What is large ungulate is the national mammal of the United States?
  6. 7. What distinctive feline is the national animal of Malaysia, Bangladesh, and India?
  7. 9. Aside from the polar bear, what is the largest species of bear?
  8. 11. What bird of prey is featured prominently on the Nigerian coat of arms?
  9. 13. In 2006, the Baiji dolphin was declared functionally extinct. This was the first time in history that an entire species of dolphin had been wiped off the planet because of human activity. What river did this animal call home?
  10. 18. What common bovine is the national animal of Nepal?