Pronghorn
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Crossword Answers

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ALPACA
Domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco

ANIMAL
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

AOUDAD
Wild sheep of northern Africa

BADGER
Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

BEAVER
Large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges

BOBCAT
Small lynx of North America

COUGAR
Large American feline resembling a lion

COYOTE
Small wolf native to western North America

DONKEY
Domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn

ERMINE
Mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat

FERRET
Domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits

FISHER
Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal

GOPHER
Burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

JACKAL
Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair

JAGUAR
A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis

JERBOA
Mouselike jumping rodent

KITFOX
Small grey fox of the plains of western North America

MAMMAL
Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

MARMOT
Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter

MARTEN
Agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels

MONKEY
Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

MUSKOX
Large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep

NILGAI
Large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns

NUTRIA
Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur

OCELOT
Nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat

ONAGER
Asiatic wild ass

PELUDO
Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts

POSSUM
Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

RABBIT
Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

SERVAL
Slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat

SUSLIK
Rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel

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AARDVARK
Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata

AARDWOLF
Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects

ANTEATER
Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites

BLACKCAT
Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal

BLACKFOX
Red fox in the color phase when its pelt is mostly black

CACHALOT
Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris

CAPYBARA
Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent

CHIPMUNK
A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body

DORMOUSE
Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather

ELEPHANT
Five-toed pachyderm

HEDGEHOG
Small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines

KANGAROO
Any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail

KINKAJOU
A kind of lemur

MASTODON
Extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth

MONGOOSE
Agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents

MULEDEER
Long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers

MUSKDEER
Small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk

PANGOLIN
Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites

PLATYPUS
Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae

POLARFOX

QUILLPIG

REINDEER
Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America

SQUIRREL
A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail

TAMANDUA
Small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America

TIGERCAT
A cat having a striped coat

WHARFRAT
Someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses

WHISTLER
Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call

WHITEFOX
Thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter

WILDBOAR
Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States

WILDGOAT
Undomesticated goat

ANTELOPE
Graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks

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PRONGBUCK
Fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns

GUINEAPIG
Stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research

SHREWMOLE
Slender mole having a long snout and tail

SILVERFOX
Red fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white

SPRINGBOK
A South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air

TATOUPEBA

TREESHREW
Insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout

WATERBUCK
Any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers

WOLVERINE
A native or resident of Michigan

WOODCHUCK
Reddish brown North American marmot

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AMERICANANTELOPE
Fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns

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PRONGHORNANTELOPE
Fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns

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ANTILOCAPRAAMERICANA
Fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns

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