Can you fill in all of the words in the puzzle using the clues below?
If you can complete the puzzle, the letters in the shaded squares will line up to form a special message. The first animal has already been done for you.
1. This big jungle cat is known for its striped fur.
2. Australia is known for these hopping marsupials that are native to the continent.
3. This eight-legged creature eats insects that it captures in its elaborately woven webs.
4. This big cat is known as the King of the Jungle.
5. This highly intelligent sea mammal makes a sound that resembles human laughter.
6. This flightless bird of Antarctica is often depicted as wearing a tuxedo.
7. This small amphibian has great leaping ability and catches its food by quickly striking out with its long tongue.
8. This proud bird is known for its bright, colorful tail feathers.
9. This large, black-and-white sea mammal is also known as a killer whale.
10. Many varieties of this bird can imitate sounds that they hear, including human speech.
11. The beach might be closed for swimming if one of these dangerous fish is spotted swimming near shore.
12. This African animal is known mainly for its especially long neck.
13. Instead of walking, flying, or swimming to get around, this animal slithers from place to place.
14. This black-and-white, endangered animal is native to the mountains of China and has a diet mainly of bamboo.
15. Legend says that if this animal sees its shadow on February 2, then supposedly there will be six more weeks of winter.
16. People mainly rode this animal for transportation prior to the invention of the automobile.
17. This ferocious reptile lives mostly in swamps and other wet environments, and is a relative of the crocodile.
18. This fuzzy-tailed rodent is an excellent tree climber and is known to bury nuts and seeds to be retrieved and eaten at a later date.
SPECIAL MESSAGE HINT: During a heavy thunderstorm, people might say the weather is doing this.
答えは明日発表！お楽しみに！！
