A different type of 20 questions

[Techno 3]

Inspired by LH's quizzes...

See if you can work this out within 20 questions.
(The below is true.)

A few weeks ago our farrier came to do our gee-gees hooves. While he was here, he mentioned to Von that he'd ben asked to do the feet of a different type of animal

What sort of animal ?
I'll only answer Yes or No,
Let's see if you can manage it within the 20 questions. (I gave up after 5 guesses.)

[d_Guy]

Is it a four footed animal?

[Techno 3]

Yes (1)

[Ithoriel]

Is it a farm animal?

[Techno 3]

No.(2)

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Is it a mammal?

[mollinary]

Is it a zebra?

[Orcs]

Is it a camel

[Techno 3]

Yes, it's a mammal
No, not a zebra.
No, not a camel.

That's 5.

[Elliesdad]

Does it weigh less than 5kilograms?

[flamingpig0]

Is it from South America?

[Techno 3]

Does it weigh less than 5kilograms?

No.(6)

Is it from South America?

No.(7)

[slugbalancer]

Is it a herbivore?

[Gwydion]

Is it from North America?

[Techno 3]

Is it a herbivore?

Yes.

Is it from North America?

No.(9)

[Orcs]

Is it a draft animal.

[Techno 3]

Is it a draft animal.

No (10)

[fsn]

Summarising then, we have some sensible, constructive answers and some wild stabs in the dark.

We have a quadruped, herbivore, mammal, weighing 5kg or more, that is not a farm animal, nor is it from the Americas - which lets out llamas and alpaca and badgers. I don't think bats are that heavy, so I'll discount those too. 

We can also safely rule out camels and zebras and horses.
I think dog is probably not sufficiently interesting to be the answer. If it is, then Friend Techno needs to be broken back to the ranks.

I'm struggling to think of a "domestic" animal that fits - except perhaps the Flemish giant rabbit



This suggests to me that we may be delving in the realms of exotica - zoo animals.

My question then is "would we be likely to find this animal in a zoo?"

[Techno 3]

Yes, Nobby....definitely getting warm, now (11)

[fsn]

OK, now we're getting somewhere.

Assuming the elephant is considered a draft animal (see MUB19), then that suggests that we're looking at deer, rhinos, giraffes or something even more exotic.