Safari Animals Word Search

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Twenty-one African animals make up this list: eland, kudu, springbok, civet, warthog and wildebeest. Free to print as a PDF, or play it online.

Safari is Swahili for a journey, borrowed from the Arabic safar, and it meant any trip long before it meant going to look at animals. The Big Five - lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and buffalo - is a hunters' list rather than a naturalists' one. Those are the five that were reckoned most dangerous to go after on foot, which is why the giraffe and the hippopotamus never made it.

The antelopes reward learning. The eland is the largest of them all and can still clear a fence well over six feet. The kudu's horns spiral two and a half times. And the springbok is named for pronking, a stiff-legged bounce several feet straight into the air that it does when alarmed, when pleased, and sometimes for reasons nobody has settled.

Print it free for a classroom or a long drive. Online, the grid reshuffles every round.

Free Safari Animals Word Search Online Game

Play the Safari Animals word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.

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Safari Animals Word Search Printable Puzzles

Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Safari Animals word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.

Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Safari Animals has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.

• Baboon
• Buffalo
• Cheetah
• Civet
• Crocodile
• Eland
• Elephant
• Gazelle
• Giraffe
• Gorilla
• Hippo
• Hyena
• Kudu
• Leopard
• Lion
• Monkey
• Rhino
• Springbok
• Warthog
• Wildebeest
• Zebra