Possible Clues:

• Fire fag at the animal
• Beast knocking top off tree in clumsy act
• Blunder, accepting one runs for a 23!
• Novel by J.M. Ledgard
• The tallest animal - what a neck
• Inland Revenue in error, one's far from short!
• Stupid mistake about origins of Indonesian rainforest mammal
• The animal might fear fig
• African native�s blunder about Ireland
• Throw back the clothes, half-affected with my long neck?