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I found another one like this all wet and sand all over the wings at the water's edge. Picked up on something and placed on a tree washed up nearby to watch the sand dry and fall off.
Nope.
It walked around for a few minutes with the wings hanging heavily, and not having brain enough to know that things are temporary under these circumstances, it grew exasperated and it pulled its wings off.
Now you know what not to do. Wet sand will lead to tragedy. I think you have to take it and toss it in the water instead and fish it back off the surface with a stick.
As for exasperation, I believe I've read that they pull their wings off after they go back down the hole because they're just in the way. That might be implemented as simply as "Are your wings troubling you? Pull them off!" where they usually only trouble you at the right time. A state machine.
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