Apex predators typically will have other species follow them around looking for scraps or crumbs that these predators will unknowingly discard. However, it is quite easy when you are tiny in comparison to the predator like these birds, Wilson Storm Petrels.
These little carnivorous birds will follow large marine mammal predators around in hoping they will get little bits of left overs that will float on the surface of the water. I am sure you can imagine too that these birds aren't exactly on the menu for the large orca either.
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