Bird yanks suckerfish from a whale shark’s skin

Cormorant ©Peter Hassett, Willen 25 January 2018

Fishing is time-consuming business, so diving birds in Mexico’s Baja California are frequenting the local “sushi conveyor” instead. That conveyor comes in the hulking shape of the region’s reigning big fish: the whale shark. The crafty cormorants have figured out that the giant sharks provide an endless supply of remora sashimi.