Possible Clues:

• Hirsute one going for a comb
• The kinkajou has to sharpen its hearing by climbing in
• Kinkajou, by another name
• Long-tailed fruit lover
• Try to hold on with extra climbing, as arboreal mammal
• Animal with a sweet tooth
• Spooner's kinkajou has rabbit fur
• Two similar mammals according to Spooner — but this one's different
• Raccoonlike mammal
• Arboreal creature's hard one to get born in twelve months