Table 8.

Correlations between blood and physiological parameters and heat tolerance indices¹⁾

	PCV	TPP	FIBR	WBC	RBC	HB	MCV	MCH	MCHC	PLAT
RT	−0.05	−0.08	−0.27	0.14	−0.06	−0.11	0.01	−0.10	−0.10	0.16
RR	−0.16	−0.05	−0.24	0.14	−0.07	−0.15	−0.11	−0.15	−0.01	−0.05
HR	0.17	−0.02	−0.04	0.01	0.27	0.20	−0.20	−0.17	0.08	−0.05
THI	−0.16	−0.12	−0.30	0.03	−0.19	−0.31	0.08	−0.19	−0.25	0.27
IBERIA	−0.41	−0.19	−0.08	0.00	−0.34	−0.40	−0.02	−0.07	−0.02	−0.06
BENEZRA	0.00	−0.02	−0.16	0.12	0.07	−0.03	−0.12	−0.19	−0.03	−0.02

RT, rectal temperature (°C); HR, heart rate (beats/min); RR, respiratory rate (movements/min); PCV, packed cell volume (%); TPP, total plasma protein(g/dL); FIBR, plasma fibrinogen (mg/dL); WBC, leukocytes; RBC, red blood cell (10⁶/μL); HB, concentration of hemoglobin (g/dL); MCV, mean corpuscular volume; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; PLAT, platelets.

¹⁾Numbers in bold are statistically significant level.