Table 4.

Correlations (Pearson, r values) between blood parameters, heart rate, gastrointestinal tract temperature (GTT), trailer temperature (T°) and relative humidity (RH), transport and lairage behaviors, carcass damage score and meat quality characteristics as assessed in the longissimus (LM), semimembranosus (SM) and adductor (AD) muscles.

Parameter	CK	Cortisol	Lactate	Heart Rate	GTT	Standing (Transport)	Sitting (Transport)	Lying (Transport)	Standing (Lairage)	Lying (Lairage)	Drinking (Lairage)	Carcass Damage Score	Compartment T°	Compartment RH	LM pHu	LM Minolta Color L*	LM Drip Loss	SM pHu	SM Minolta Color L*	SM Drip Loss	AD pHu
r
p
n 1	96	96	96	95	96	48	48	48	96	96	96	96	88	88	84	96	96	84	94	94	84
CK 2	1	0.45	−0.06	0.23	0.41	−0.08	0.23	0.02	−0.15	−0.19	0.05	0.29	0.42	−0.36	0.41	−0.38	−0.23	0.08	−0.25	−0.36	0.013
	-	<0.001	0.57	0.02	<0.001	0.56	0.11	0.89	0.13	0.06	0.65	0.003	<0.001	0.003	0.0001	0.0001	0.02	0.48	0.01	<0.001	0.9
Cortisol		1	0.04	0.08	0.31	−0.41	0.21	0.41	−0.08	−0.07	−0.01	0.07	0.53	−0.49	−0.08	−0.04	0.08	−0.15	0.06	0.12	−0.12
		-	0.69	0.44	0.002	0.003	0.15	0.003	0.46	0.47	0.9	0.46	<0.001	<0.001	0.44	0.73	0.41	0.17	0.54	0.23	0.27
Lactate			1	−0.01	−0.26	−0.12	−0.01	0.12	0.04	0.07	−0.14	0.05	−0.38	0.22	−0.25	0.21	0.01	−0.32	0.25	−0.08	0.13
			-	0.91	0.009	0.43	0.95	0.43	0.68	0.48	0.16	0.61	<0.001	0.01	0.02	0.04	0.9	0.002	0.01	0.42	0.24

¹ n: Unit was trailer compartment. For postures during transport (n = 48) two compartments were analysed per trailer, and the values were correlated against the corresponding blood and meat quality values for trailer compartment. ² CK: creatine kinase.