Answer:
What lives where it cannot breathe and has a hole in its back
This noble creature has the embarrassing inability to get up once it's been flipped onto its back.
How a big, hibernating mammal would show affection.
I am a large mammal that lives in the ocean and sprays water from a blowhole. What am I?
What has a coat? Hugs you not in sympathy? Whose smile you'd rather not see? Whose stance is a terrible thing to see? Who is it that brave men run away from? Whose fingers are clawed? Whose sleep lasts for months? And who's company we shunt?
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.