It is common to transport live mice in special containers but there is a risk that they might die due to
stress during shipping, or escape due to mishandling or an accident.
Not exact matches
But the timing of Christmas this year is also likely to add
stress to
shipping infrastructure: Christmas falls on a Sunday, meaning that this coming weekend is the last full one
during which people can shop in stores ahead of Christmas Day on Dec. 25.
A study of losses by Lloyd's Register in 1990 pinpointed three factors that contribute to structural failure:
stress on the hull caused by inadvertent overloading, physical damage caused to the
ship during loading, and corrosion in cargo spaces.
During the week that
ships were stilled, underwater noise was lower by 6 decibels, and the levels of whales» glucocorticoids (
stress - related fecal hormone metabolites) were lower, too.