Cryptic Clues For Animals

[ziggystardust]

Any help would be appreciated with these questions
They are all names of animals?

1 If you search for facts, you=====it out 6 letters

2, Sounds like a fibrous tissue that can contract 6 letters I have come up with Muscle, but its not an animal

Many thanks in advance

[cashier]

1 Ferret?

[clairerob21]

1. ferret

[Mamyalynne]

2 Mussel 'sounds like'

[fiction-factory]

mussel ?

[cashier]

2 A mussel is a living creature

[fiction-factory]

weasel?

[fiction-factory]

ignore weasel

[ziggystardust]

Fiction factory

I have but many thanks

[fiction-factory]

Are they animals? I'm not sure fish are technically animals and I assume that includes shellfish

[fiction-factory]

I didn't type that correctly. I meant- do the answers have to be animals or is it living creatures we are looking for?

[clairerob21]

any help with no 5 in the same quiz sounds like a high-pitched cry of pain 5

[scorpiojo]

Whale

[clairerob21]

thanks scorpiojo much appreciated