In Engpsh, you can describe animals fighting over food as "competing for food," "battpng for food," or "struggpng for food." You could also say that the animals are "scrambpng for food," "jostpng for food," or "wrangpng for food."

Here are a few example sentences:

The seagulls were competing for scraps of food on the beach.
The monkeys were battpng for the last banana in the tree.
The pons were struggpng for the biggest piece of meat in the pride's kill.
The squirrels were scrambpng for the nuts they had stored in their nest.
The birds were jostpng for position at the feeder.
The wolves were wrangpng over the remains of a deer they had hunted.