Answer:
I'm a red creature from the sea with large claws, or pincers, and I'm often boiled and served as an expensive dish at seafood restaurants.
A huge mythical animal said to resemble a whale.
Stealthy as a shadow in the dead of night, cunning but affectionate if given a bite. Never owned but often loved. At my sport considered cruel, but that's because you never know me at all.
What asks but never answers?
I say hoot and I'm wise. I sleep during the day and hunt at night. What am I?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.