Behavioural traits in foals? (college assignment)?

In my experience,

Dominate behavior: Foals rear and bump each other, nipping and squealing. Galloping around the pasture and bucking is normal. Colts will face each other and bite each others knees and necks, Fillies tend to squeal more than colts. Sometimes they paw at the ground.

Submissive behavior: Lying on the ground with each other, standing over each other as hey lie on the ground. Grooming each other. Grazing together.

Play activies: galloping after each other playing tag. rearing and nicely bucking, not aggressively. bumping while running together, playing with toys together.

Active behavior: anything! Foals are constantly doing something! Nap times are often, but many times they don't last more than 30 minutes in the daytime.

Sterotypes: not sure what you mean, but foals are much more active than their grown up counterparts. They also seem to spook easier. Colts like to play rough, fillies tend to play with toys a bit more often, they seem more curious of things in the pasture. There are many exceptions to behavior, gender and breedwise. The heavier breed foals seem to have just as much energy as the lighter breed foals. Different breeds have slightly different gestation times, and that greatly effects the early behavior of foals. Mini's, for example, tend to have their foals later than the normal 340 day gestation period, making the foals bigger, stronger and more active in the first hours than usual. Friesian foals are born much earlier, normally at the 320 day mark, making the foals very small and weaker than a normal 340 gestation foal.

In my years of working on breeding farm, each foal has been different, but each breed had certain characteristics that all seem to have behaviorwise.

I hope this helps you get started and good luck on the paper!

Shereena