Possible Clues:

• Creature seen in playtime to drink up
• Odd-looking critter
• Drama over Manx cat biting head of tiny river creature
• Creature aptly styled 'Tailless cat'
• One's billed in flat manner, and about time during pay review
• Creature a tailless sort — positive about that?
• Animal act taking time with tailless cat
• Duck-billed mammal
• Creature that's a sort mostly protected by benefit
• Mammal with webbed feet and a flat bill