Table 4.

Inferential Statistics. The results of a Mann-Whitney test for the effects of hair, anaesthesia and temperature when the mouse is placed in the ventral decubitus position.

Hair
Temperature	Anaesthesia	Hair	Mean–Average of the ranks	Median–Average of the ranks
36 °C	inhalational	ARC	28.9	28.79
		ARD	20.1	20.21
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
36 °C	intraperitoneal	ARC	20.46	20.02
		ARD	28.54	28.94
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
38 °C	inhalational	ARC	30.85	30.75
		ARD	18.15	18.25
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
38 °C	intraperitoneal	ARC	17.31	17.02
		ARD	31.69	31.98
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
Anaesthesia
Temperature	Hair	Anaesthesia	Mean–Average of the ranks	Median–Average of the ranks
36 °C	ARD	inhalational	15.48	19.02
		intraperitoneal	33.52	29.98
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
38 °C	ARC	inhalational	32.73	32.6
		intraperitoneal	16.27	16.4
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
Temperature
Anaesthesia	Hair	Temperature	Mean–Average of the ranks	Median–Average of the ranks
inhalational	ARD	36 °C	15.69	16.15
		38 °C	33.31	32.85
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
intraperitoneal	ARD	36 °C	20.06	18.65
		38 °C	28.94	30.35
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001
inhalational	ARC	36 °C	20.73	19.29
		38 °C	28.27	29.71
			p < 0.001	p < 0.001