Answer:
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
In the forest, this blends in just right, but every December it is covered with lights. What is it?
You will find me with four legs, but no hair. People ride me for hours, but I don't go anywhere without needing to be tugged. Jerked or turned on, I always manage to be ready for work.
Two in a whole and four in a pair. And six in a trio you see. And eight's a quartet but what you must get. Is the name that fits just one of me?
My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.