The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LEMUR
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More clues leading to the result LEMUR
- Primate finding bird with left and right wings?
- The French half murder Madagascan native
- Primate, one that went from Berlin to Paris
- Animal in space module descending on old city
- Large misgiving after beheading mammal
- Long-tailed mammal, extremely lovable, with unusual back
- Primate gripping bird between both hands
- Malagasy native? Supporter of La Maison probably
- Primate said to be capital
- Mammal taking bird in both hands
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The straight part
We know that "Animal" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case animal = lemur.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LEMUR mean?
LEMUR noun- Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
- Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
- A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.