Why do humans need sunscreen, but animals, with or without fur/feathers, do just fine without?

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Seriously, a bad sunburn could limit our ability to survive in the wild. I’ve had a few so bad I could barely move and I had a super high fever. Desn’t that happen to animals? How do they manage?

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In addition to the other comments about other animals also protecting themselves in different ways, if a human get sunburnt continously our skin darkens and we develop some additional protection. That’s until we develop skin cancer that is. But evolution generally does not care what happens to us after child bearing and rearing age and evolution is generally completely fine with you drying at the ripe old age of 35 🙂

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