Easy Zebra Word Search Printable

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BMTBPGWOFDLEGSB

CFMLDOPSOLDDFYL

OEHIKBATMDVIWAR

GHEOCRGRAZINGOC

ARRNHYJINFOALHE

VSDVEFCPEKPJXHY

CDZAENBETNNILAE

RPEYTWYSTSDRRGS

RFBFAAHCZYWARJA

RERLHKHOZTURAPV

OAAFRICANIIWFCA

CNCISCITTAILFMN

DDEYNKROTPNZGWN

SNJRGPNEQUHYENA

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ZebraZEBRA
StripesSTRIPES
ManeMANE
TailTAIL
CoatCOAT
LegsLEGS
EyesEYES
HerdHERD
FoalFOAL
GrazingGRAZING
KickKICK
AfricaAFRICA
SavannaSAVANNA
LionLION
HyenaHYENA
CheetahCHEETAH

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BMTBPGWOFDLEGSB

CFMLDOPSOLDDFYL

OEHIKBATMDVIWAR

GHEOCRGRAZINGOC

ARRNHYJINFOALHE

VSDVEFCPEKPJXHY

CDZAENBETNNILAE

RPEYTWYSTSDRRGS

RFBFAAHCZYWARJA

RERLHKHOZTURAPV

OAAFRICANIIWFCA

CNCISCITTAILFMN

DDEYNKROTPNZGWN

SNJRGPNEQUHYENA

EIMDXZVXTWCTAIT

ZEBRA, STRIPES, MANE, TAIL, COAT, LEGS, EYES, HERD, FOAL, GRAZING, KICK, AFRICA, SAVANNA, LION, HYENA, CHEETAH

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Zebras and Their Relatives 12

Donkey A working animal, domesticated in Africa some 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, in the same genus as the zebra.
Equid A member of the horse family; horses, donkeys and zebras all belong.
Equus The scientific name of the group that holds every living horse, donkey and zebra.
Horse A one-toed, hoofed animal that people began to tame thousands of years ago; it shares its genus with the zebra.
Mountain One kind of zebra, found in Angola, Namibia and South Africa, is named for this high, steep kind of country.
Plains The most common and widespread kind of zebra is named for these flat, open lands.
Quagga A plains zebra of South Africa, striped mainly on the head and neck; it was hunted until none were left, in the late 1800s.
Ungulate A hoofed mammal; horses and zebras are odd-toed ones, standing on a single toe on each foot.
Zebra An African relative of the horse with a black-and-white striped coat; three kinds are alive today.
Zebroid The young of a zebra and any other member of the horse family, such as a pony or a donkey.
Zony A foal whose father is a zebra and whose mother is a pony.
Zorse A foal whose father is a zebra and whose mother is a horse.

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A Zebra's Body 17

Camouflage Coloring that helps an animal blend in; the earliest idea about stripes was that they work this way.
Coat An animal's covering of hair; a zebra foal is born with a brown and white one that darkens with age.
Dewlap A fold of loose skin that hangs from the throat; the mountain zebra has one.
Ears A zebra can turn these toward a sound, and it drops them back as a sign that it may kick.
Eyes Placed high on the sides of the head, so a zebra can see over tall grass as it feeds.
Hooves The hard coverings on a zebra's feet, one on each foot.
Incisors The front teeth, which a zebra uses to clip grass.
Legs A zebra's are thin, and each one ends in a single hard hoof.
Mane The long hair along a zebra's neck, which stands straight up.
Molars The broad back teeth, which grind a zebra's food.
Muzzle The nose, mouth and jaws at the front of an animal's face.
Pattern The arrangement of the stripes; on the rump it differs from one kind of zebra to another.
Rump The back end of the body, where each kind of zebra has its own arrangement of stripes.
Skin Under the striped hair, a zebra's is black.
Stripes Black-and-white bands on a zebra's coat, in an arrangement that is different on every animal.
Tail On a zebra it ends in a tuft of long hair.
Tuft The bunch of long hair at the tip of a zebra's tail.

Herd and Family Life 17

Bachelor A male with no family group of his own; such males gather in bands.
Bark The contact call of the plains zebra is described as this dog-like sound.
Dazzle An uncommon name for a herd of zebras.
Foal A zebra, horse or donkey up to one year old.
Gallop The fastest gait of a horse or other four-legged animal.
Grass A zebra's diet is mostly this and sedges.
Grazing Feeding on growing grass, which is how a zebra spends most of its day.
Grooming Zebras nibble along each other's necks, shoulders and backs, which strengthens their bonds.
Herbivore An animal that eats plants, as every zebra does.
Herd A group of zebras that live and travel together.
Kick With a bite, one of the two ways a zebra defends itself.
Mare A grown female zebra or horse.
Migration A seasonal journey; plains zebras have been recorded traveling 500 kilometers between Namibia and Botswana.
Sedges Grass-like plants that, with grasses, make up most of what a zebra eats.
Snort A loud burst of air through the nose, which signals alarm among zebras.
Stallion A grown male zebra or horse; a plains zebra family has just one.
Territory An area an animal keeps as its own; male Grevy's zebras each hold a large one.

Where Zebras Live 12

Africa The only continent where zebras live in the wild, in its east and south.
Botswana A country of southern Africa whose national animal is the plains zebra.
Endangered At high risk of dying out; the Grevy's zebra is listed this way.
Ethiopia With Kenya, one of the two countries where Grevy's zebras are found.
Kenya The East African country where most Grevy's zebras live, in its north.
Namibia A country of southwest Africa that is home to one kind of mountain zebra.
Reserve Protected land where wild animals and plants are kept safe.
Savanna Grassland with widely spaced trees, one of the main homes of zebras.
Serengeti A region of Tanzania and Kenya, the scene of a great yearly migration of wildebeest and zebras.
Shrubland Country covered with low bushes, one of the habitats zebras use.
Waterhole A pool where wild animals come to drink.
Woodland An area covered with trees, one of the habitats zebras use.

Neighbors and Predators 15

Cheetah The fastest land animal; it is less of a threat to a grown zebra than a lion is.
Crocodile The Nile kind catches zebras that come down to the water.
Giraffe The tallest living land animal, a hoofed mammal of Africa.
Hyena The spotted kind hunts zebras too, though it is less of a danger to adults than a lion.
Impala A medium-sized antelope of eastern and southern Africa.
Leopard A big cat whose pale gold fur carries dark spots in rose-shaped clusters.
Lion The big cat that is the zebra's main predator.
Ostrich The largest living bird; it cannot fly, but it keeps up a fast run over long distances.
Oxpecker A bird that perches on zebras, impalas and other large mammals and eats their ticks.
Predator An animal that hunts other animals for food.
Prey An animal that is hunted by another for food.
Tsetse A biting African fly; the best-supported idea about stripes is that they keep such flies from landing.
Warthog A wild African pig with two pairs of tusks that curve upward.
Wild Dog The biggest untamed canine in Africa, found south of the Sahara.
Wildebeest An antelope also called a gnu; it eats the shorter grass left after plains zebras have grazed.

How this list was compiled: 73 zebra words in five lists: zebras and their relatives, the body, herd and family life, where zebras live, and neighbors and predators. Facts in the clues were checked on October 9, 2026 against English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), chiefly its Zebra, Plains zebra, Mountain zebra and Grévy's zebra articles; spellings and plain meanings against English Wiktionary. Licence: own work

How it works

This easy zebra word search printable opens on 16 words a young reader knows, Stripes, Herd, Savanna, Mane, Foal, Grazing and Africa among them. Behind that grid wait 73 zebra words in five lists.

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From A Zebra's Body to Herd and Family Life

A Zebra's Body has 17 words, from Mane and Hooves to Dewlap, the fold of throat skin that the mountain zebra has. Herd and Family Life has 17, such as Foal, Stallion and Dazzle, an uncommon name for a herd. Zebras and Their Relatives adds 12, with Quagga, Zorse and Zony.

Where zebras live and who lives beside them

Where Zebras Live has 12 words, from Savanna and Serengeti to Kenya and Botswana, whose national animal is the plains zebra. Neighbors and Predators has 15, from Lion and Hyena to Oxpecker, the bird that eats ticks off large mammals.

Easy Zebra keeps to 26 words of 4 or 5 letters, such as Mane, Tail, Foal and Lion.
In More options, tick Show clues, not words and Tail prints as "On a zebra it ends in a tuft of long hair."

Questions and answers

Does the printable zebra word search come with an answer key?

Yes. The puzzle prints on one sheet of Letter or A4 and the key, with every word ringed, on the next, so you can hand out the first and keep the other.

Are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes?

The coat looks white with black stripes, because the belly and legs are white where they are unstriped, but the skin underneath is black. A foal is born brown and white, and the brown darkens with age.

Why do zebras have stripes?

Nobody is certain. Biologists have argued for camouflage, confusing predators, keeping cool and telling each other apart. Most of the evidence so far supports another idea: the stripes keep biting flies from landing.

How many kinds of zebra are there?

Three are alive today: the plains zebra, the mountain zebra and Grevy's zebra. The quagga, a plains zebra of South Africa, was hunted to extinction in the late 1800s.

All 73 words

Zebras and Their Relatives 12

A Zebra's Body 17

Herd and Family Life 17

Where Zebras Live 12

Neighbors and Predators 15

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