Answer:
I am known for my long trunk and large ears. What am I?
Attracted by light but flies at night. It's wind and hairy but not too scary. What is it?
While I did live, I food did give, which many one did daily eat. Now being dead, you see they tread me under feet about the street.
This noble creature has the embarrassing inability to get up once it's been flipped onto its back.
They're actually great swimmers now, but later they will become excellent hoppers.
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.