Varies with the artist and the story - it's common for Marisas to be able to manipulate their hat with their braid and/or tongue, but it's hardly universal.
KodokuEasy said: Varies with the artist and the story - it's common for Marisas to be able to manipulate their hat with their braid and/or tongue, but it's hardly universal.
This, also even if the yukkuri could, it wouldn't assure a succesful save, that many kids, their weak accessory limbs and filling up the "pointy tip part" of the hat would lead to the hat either sinking or drifsting away.
The only reason Marisas can float succesfully is by having that pointy tip part not filled with anything, if it's filled too much it may sink because there would be to little air to counter the water's density.
Yet in the end, everything reduces to being intelligent enough to do it, and yukkuris are well known to not be smart at all, SPECIALLY in stressful situations. There is a reason why everybody says "the only reason their species remain is their high reproduction rates".