Possible Clues:

• An animal, not a vegetable
• Slow-moving lemur-like primate that lives in the equatorial forests of West Africa
• King Edward, say, dismissing a primate
• Too much work rearing this creature
• It typically hangs onto its West African branches to put by accumulated cash
• Primate's outrageous work rebuffed
• Primate in European river, too far up
• Primate's instruction to reader devouring scriptures
• Return the top to the primate