Endangered Animals Word Search

Words in the Endangered Animals word search

Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.

tiger

Largest wild cat, with fewer than 5,000 left in the wild.

panda

Black and white bear that eats bamboo in Chinese mountain forests.

rhino

Heavy grazer still hunted illegally for the horn on its nose.

gorilla

Largest living primate, found in forests of central Africa.

elephant

Biggest land animal, killed for ivory and squeezed out of habitat.

turtle

Sea turtles swallow floating plastic they mistake for jellyfish.

cheetah

Fastest land animal, now split into small scattered African groups.

leopard

Spotted cat whose Amur subspecies numbers only about 100 animals.

wolf

The red wolf of the United States is among the rarest canines.

orangutan

Red haired great ape living only on Borneo and Sumatra.

condor

California condor nearly died out and was saved by captive breeding.

lemur

Group of primates found in the wild only on Madagascar.

manatee

Slow plant eating sea mammal often injured by boat propellers.

pangolin

Scaly ant eater, the most illegally traded wild mammal on Earth.

vaquita

Small porpoise of Mexico's Gulf of California, down to a handful.

axolotl

Salamander that keeps its gills, wild only near Mexico City.

kakapo

Flightless night parrot from New Zealand, moved to predator free islands.

saola

Shy forest animal of Vietnam and Laos, rarely ever seen.

markhor

Wild goat with spiral horns from the mountains of central Asia.

numbat

Small striped Australian marsupial that eats termites all day.

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