Answer:
What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?
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.
Hold these between your knees if you want to set a Cuban beat.
It's a game played by serious people that takes place on a global scale.
A dragons tooth in a mortals hand, I kill, I maim, I divide the land.
Why was the cook arrested?
Difficult
Animal
Easy
Food
Funny
Kids
Logic
What am I?