Little rising area enclosed for animals (6)
I believe the answer is:
llamas
'animals' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'little rising area enclosed' is the wordplay.
'little' becomes 'L' (abbreviation for little).
'rising' becomes 'lams' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'area' becomes 'a' (maths abbreviation).
'enclosed' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lams' enclosing 'a' is 'lamas'.
'l'+'lamas'='LLAMAS'
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for llamas that I've seen before include "Camel-like animals" , "domesticated guanacos" , "South American cud-chewing animals" , "Andean pack animals" , "South American animals related to camels but humpless" .)