Mammals

[bluedog]

Thankyou all for your help earlier, here are a few more.
1 Fried/Silicon with s Brother ( 8 )
2 Swear twice (3 3 )
3 Scot's " man " and a silly person or bird (8 )
4 Wears glasses in S. America naked ( 10 4 )
5 Sheep noise? To grant a blessing ( 6 )
6 Look, a French she ( 7 )
7 A perfumed African feline ( 5 )
8 Not quite a horse sound ( 5 )
9 The sea in France nearly ( 5 )

[crofter]

Point taken razza. To be honest, my ancient version of Chambers has cus-cus (with a hyphen for the animal) but cuscus (one word) for the millet grain and the Indian grass! So I was bending the rules just a little.

As for the "Aye Aye" - to swear allegiance (kayakamina ) - I hadn't thought of that explanation. I do note that my same Chambers has aye-aye (again hyphenated) for the lemur!

You pays your money and makes your choice!