Recalled a better article about large animal (6)
I believe the answer is:
alpaca
'animal' is the definition.
(South American animal)
'recalled a better article about large' is the wordplay.
'recalled' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'better' becomes 'cap' (I've seen this before).
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'large' becomes 'l'.
'a'+'cap'+'a'='acapa'
'acapa' placed around 'l' is 'acapla'.
'acapla' backwards is 'ALPACA'.
(Other definitions for alpaca that I've seen before include "South American relative of the llama" , "Fabric from wool of S American llama" , "S American mammal in the llama family" , "South American mammal" , "creature of the Andes" .)