And, surprisingly, many species and businesses that eke out a living in the shadows of giants employ similar strategies to succeed in their respective dog-eat-dog worlds of intense competition for limited resources.
In 2020, Mr Biden won the popular vote by 4.5 percentage points nationwide, while eking out a win in Wisconsin-which gave him his 270th electoral vote-by only 0.6 percentage points.
Even today, 400 years after the fall of the citadel, nature is still battling with the remaining few farmers struggling to eke out an existence from the land.
What analysts are predicting for their profits might be, it's as low as just over $100mn in profits that Goldman made, so barely eking out a profit to as high as 1.7bn.
Independent forecasters believed Biden was likely to eke out the requisite 270 electoral votes when all the votes were counted, over the President's noisy objections.
By his telling, Germany's employment boom is in fact a state-sponsored poverty programme, where armies of the underemployed eke out miserable wages in dead-end jobs.