| ANT | Insect with around 15,000 known species |
| KRILL | With 85 known species, planktonic crustaceans integral to the food chain, as without their existence |
| PIGEONS | These birds (about 250 known species) occur worldwide except in the coldest regions and the most remote islands. They all strut about with a characteristic bobbing of the head. In The Merchant of Veni |
| FRESHWATER | Like 41% of all known species of fish |
| NONDESCRIPT | Note first badly done handwriting of no known species |
| ALOE | Its best- known species is "vera" |
| LEECH | Invertebrate whose best-known species is Hirudo medicinalis |
| AMAZONRAINFOREST | Region home to one in ten known species |
| MOA | There were nine known species of what large bird? (3) |
| PIERRE | U.S. state capital with fewer than 15,000 residents |
| ILIAD | Epic with more than 15,000 lines |
| OUR | Days of ___ Lives (soap opera with almost 15,000 episodes) |
| ANIMALS | General name for the 1.2 million known species of organisms studied in zoology and classified in taxonomy (7) |
| LAUGHING | Most well known species of dove in south africa which has a black flecked necklace |
| ANTS | There are more than 10,000 known species of these insects |
| FISH | Any one of the approximately 34,000 known species of aquatic "pisces", including the banana wrasse, candy basslet, cherry barb, chocolate gourami, lemon sole, pumpkinseed and strawberry dottyback (4) |
| SWAN | One third of all known species of this bird are found in New Zealand (4) |
| MANDRILL | The largest known species of monkey - they are found in the rainforests of West Africa |
| FALCON | Bird of prey of which the best-known species on Mallorca is a summer visitor called Eleanora's (6) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general who caught the Romans off-guard by crossing the Alps into Italy with his army of 30,000 soldiers, 37 elephants and 15,000 horses (8) |
