[INJ] Item best used in pairs? NO
[FGZstar] Drumstick? NO (there's no animal type of this)

Well, about five more hours before I might have to hand this over.

Well, the only wooden, sticky, musical things that aren't instruments that I can think of are a baton (disqualified because they come in animal types and aren't obviously abstract) and the pole that some C18 & 19 conductors would use to beat time.

Oh and I'm quite glad my previous guess was wrong, now I start to think of the 'edible' case.

[INJ] In that case, as we might disagree on the definition and you might have guessed it otherwise, I think it only fair to hand over the BATON to you, hoping to be enlightened about the animal case! The cases of which I was thinking are the wooden (or sometimes, apparently, fibreglass) conductor's baton, the military baton, the metal relay baton, the well-known small loaf, carrot batons and police batons, plus of course the abstract Baton Sinister from heraldry. Challenging subject, but I enjoyed attempting something a bit more hard to get hold of, as it were. Apols to anyone else who had foregone that guess on non-animal grounds, too.

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They make them in bone and ivory
Anyway, moving on - Let's have a nice simple ANIMAL

They don't come much simpler than that.

[Raak] amoebic? - NO (not quite that simple)
[irach] monotremic? - NO (but I had been thinking about that, so you were close to the quickest ever win)

[ImNotJohn] Great minds think alike; what more can I say?

[Raak] Gone forever - NO *some audience reaction*
[GL] Human? - NO

[jim] Latimeria chalumnae? - NO
Actually, I think I set that a few years ago.

[Software] Mammalian? - NO

[irach] Reptilian? - YES
[Raak] Endangered? - YES *applause*
the audience were rather helpful earlier on, but they're a fair-minded lot
Software is hereby awarded one free guess.

[FGZstar] Chelonioidiac? - NO *further applause*

[Raak] Tuatara? - Happy to admit I had to look that one up, from which I assume you can guess that the answer is NO

[irach] Varanidaeic? - NO

[irach] Darwinian? - YES! - (to all intents and purposes)*applause*
[Raak] Pop-uppable? - NO *some audience laughter*

[irach] Galapagos Giant Tortoise? - YES - but curiously enough, none of those words are on the card (*the audience are shuffling towards the exit*)

[irach] Hattie? - Sorry, never heard of her, so NO

We have a winner! The words on the card are: 'Lonesome George': probably the last Pinta Island giant tortoise.
I'll send him over with the baton.

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