Hard Aussie animals word search
Quoll, pademelon and the thorny devil: twenty-eight Australian animals from the desert to the reef. The eighteen by eighteen grid hides them in every direction, backwards too, for older kids and keen naturalists.
- Antechinus
- Bandicoot
- Bettong
- Blue-tongue lizard
- Box jellyfish
- Brolga
- Dugong
- Dunnart
- Flying fox
- Freshwater croc
- Frilled lizard
- Funnel-web
- Leafy sea dragon
- Lyrebird
- Numbat
- Pademelon
- Perentie
- Platypus
- Potoroo
- Quoll
- Redback
- Rock wallaby
- Sugar glider
- Taipan
- Thorny devil
- Thylacine
- Tree kangaroo
- Wallaroo
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- Antechinus
- Bandicoot
- Bettong
- Blue-tongue lizard
- Box jellyfish
- Brolga
- Dugong
- Dunnart
- Flying fox
- Freshwater croc
- Frilled lizard
- Funnel-web
- Leafy sea dragon
- Lyrebird
- Numbat
- Pademelon
- Perentie
- Platypus
- Potoroo
- Quoll
- Redback
- Rock wallaby
- Sugar glider
- Taipan
- Thorny devil
- Thylacine
- Tree kangaroo
- Wallaroo
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About this word search
The Thylacine, also called the Tasmanian tiger, is the one animal here that no longer exists. The last known one died in a zoo in Hobart in 1936. The rest are very much alive, though some are rarely seen: the Numbat feeds almost entirely on termites, and male Antechinus die after a single frantic breeding season.
All eight directions are used in this eighteen by eighteen grid, reversed words too. Names with hyphens or spaces, such as Blue-tongue lizard and Leafy sea dragon, are written as one continuous string. The Q in Quoll and the double O in Bandicoot, Potoroo and Wallaroo are useful starting points.
For a research project, students could pick a species from the list and find out whether it is endangered and where it still lives.
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