"It was the will of the Force"

On a more serious note: these three being saved by another creature seems to have occurred more due to luck than due to anybody actually being interested in saving them

There is always a bigger fish

This is kind of like the Skippy the Jedi Droid thing . . . Skippy the Sando Aqua Monster?

Being serious, I don't think it did that on purpose. It saw a smaller fish distracted by something else, so that was an easy meal scored.