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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Your premise is wrong, not only animals do get sunburnt, a lot of humans (mostly black people) only get sunburnt to an extent.

You get a serious sunburn because you spend 99% of the time not directly exposed to sunlight. People like pro cyclists only get mild sunburns (if at all) on their face/arms/legs because they are exposed all year long so they have a nice coating of melanine.

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