Animal Words

slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns

a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly

large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage

alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide

a small monkey with claws instead of nails

heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds

of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae

small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker

forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails

common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe

fish having a luminous organ beneath eye

any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water

small rodent with soft pearly grey fur

large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe

deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds

marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill

largest known toad species

any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth

any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless

European aquatic salamander with permanent external gills that lives in caves

extinct marine reptile with a small head on a long neck a short tail and four paddle-shaped limbs; of the Jurassic and Cretaceous

fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa

Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth

small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America