Possible Clues:

• Camel or giraffe
• Beast that chews the cud
• Contemplating getting a cow, say
• Thinking to put spirit into a worker
• Might one choose, by the sound of it, to have one drink in the insect
• Cow, large 20 eating imitative bird
• Thinking that's incongruous in a social worker
• To have some drink in it gives the insect something to chew on
• Meditative, and that's unusual in a hard worker
• Strange, in soldier, to be contemplative