Certain to get away from Latin-American tapir, for example (6)
I believe the answer is:
animal
'certain' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'away from latin-american tapir for example' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'away' could be 'a' (abbreviation as used in sports fixtures) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'latin' could be 'l' and 'l' is present in the answer.
'american' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'nim' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'to get' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for animal that I've seen before include "See 26" , "Creature having voluntary movement" , "I''m Alan (anag) - a wild, crazy person" , "something in the zoo?" , "Possibly bear" .)