Animal I caught at both ends of a cold country (9)
I believe the answer is:
icelandic
'animal i caught' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'at both ends of a cold country' is the wordplay.
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'both ends of' becomes 'ic' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a cold country' becomes 'iceland' (I've seen this before).
'ic' put after 'iceland' is 'ICELANDIC'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for icelandic that I've seen before include "in island republic" , "Eg, native to Reykjavik" , "Language of people of Reykjavik" , "Like many sagas" , "As European" .)