Answer:
Slithery critters with a taste for dirt.
What has a horn but does not work?
A warrior amongs the flowers, He bears a thrusting sword. Able and ready to use, To guard his golden hoard.
If a dog were filling out a resume, he might list his mastery of this game under "skills."
My first is in window but not in pane. My second's in road but not in lane. My third is in oval but not in round. My fourth is in hearing but not in sound. My whole is known as a sign of peace. And from Noah's ark won quick release.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.