'Young children, when in a violent rage roll on the ground on their backs or bellies, screaming, kicking, scratching, or biting everything within reach. So it is, as I hear from Mr. Scott, with Hindoo children; and, as we have seen, with the young of the anthropomorphous apes.'   Charles Darwin.

 

Cats fighting over a female could be fighting through anger rather than trying to 'win' her over as females are no more likely to pair with the winner than the looser.

 

After being constantly teased by one worker at the Oceanarium, Ola, a killer whale, held down the worker by placing his snout on his back and pushing him to the floor.  Other workers offered Ola fish, tried to startle him and gave him commands but Ola didn't  release the worker for five minutes.  He had his diving gear on so he didn't drown.

 

In the book 'The Smile Of A Dolphin' by Marc Bekoff one story tells of an octopus who shot out jets of water at a woman and went bright red every time she passed but nobody else got this treatment.  She was checking the water inflow with her flashlight and must've been disturbing the octopus making him angry at her.

Bernd Heinrich, talks of when he handled one of the young from a raven's nest and the parents were nearby, 'the parents swooped over my head, landed on the closest branches, uttered rasping growls, ripped off twigs and flung them aside, then hammered on their perches with all their might.'