| DUGONG | Closest living relative of the three species of manatee |
| ANNAMARIA | --- --- Island, barrier island on the coast of Manatee County, Florida (4,5) |
| RIGHT | The three species of ___ whales form the genus Eubalaena |
| BOBCAT | Long-legged feline mammal of North America related to but smaller than the three species of lynx (Eurasian, Canada and Iberian) (6) |
| ZEBRA | Plains, Mountain and Grevy's are the three species of which animal? (5) |
| SEACOW | Extinct cousin of manatees |
| KOALA | The ___ is the closest living relative of the wombat. They both have the same type of pouch. |
| OKAPI | Closest living relative of the giraffe, native to forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (5) |
| HIPPO | The closest living relative of the whale, casually |
| RAZORBILL | North Atlantic colonial seabird which is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (9) |
| CROC | Short word for a reptile that is the closest living relative of birds (4) |
| HIPPOPOTAMUSES | Closest living relatives of whales |
| WHALE | Mammal in the infraorder Cetacea whose closest living relative is the hippopotamus (5) |
| MANATEE | Aquatic mammal whose closest living relative on land is the elephant |
| GIRAFFE | Mammal whose closest living relative is the okapi |
| APES | Our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, thus veritable living lenses on our primal kin or windows into our evolutionary past (4) |
| APE | Human's closest living relative |
| NEXTOFKIN | Closest living relative (4,2,3) |
| GEMSBOK | Largest of me three species of oryx, or straight-horned antelope, found on the plains of Africa; Oryx gazella (7) |
| ORANGUTAN | Any of three species of Asian great apes found in rainforests on the Southeast Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. |
