In addition to the time budget analysis, a sequential analysis helped us determine the probability of certain behaviors following another. From this analysis we found that, with a bout of play between foals, there is a higher probability of them walking away after bumping mouths, leaping at another foal after rubbing against that foal, and hitting mouths after one foal leaps at another (Fig. 5). After illustrating how one behavior is likely to follow another, we can better understand and see how patterns of behavior develop. Doing the analysis on playful bouts with a foal interacting with another foal, helps us to better understand the process of social interactions and can help us to determine the purpose of many of them being as we can not gather this verbally.
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