" I did rescue the little fella successfully trimmed up his tail a tad and let him go back in the water. High hopes he or she doesn't make it back up on the shore again."
....a little altruism mixed in with the brutality of Mother Nature???
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."