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Animal getting creamy food, we hear (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

moose

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'animal' is the definition.
(type of animal)

'creamy food we hear' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'food' could be 'e' (E is an example) and 'e' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'moos' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'getting' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for moose that I've seen before include "Ungulate" , "Large US deer" , "beasts" , "Large northern deer" , "North American deer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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