[Spangle] Model/miniature? NO
[INJ] Basically cylindrical? YES *applause*, most cases are cylindrical, if you're not too Platonic about it.
[FGZstar] A drum? NO
[Raak] Do most people have one? NO.

[FGZstar] Recorder? Flute? NO (not a musical instrument per se, in fact).

I realise this is probably a slightly annoying one (altho you will kick yourselves) but can I just say how gratified I am by the ingenuity of the guesses? Thank you.

[FGZstar] Stick? OF SORTS! *tumultuous applause, and stirrings of anticipation for the endgame*

[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