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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Animals can absolutely get sunburnt too.
They just have adaptations to help protect against it. The same way humans with ancestry closer to the equator have more melanin that those from more northern latitudes.
Mammals with hair/fur are obviously protected by their fur. Same goes to animals with feathers. The same way our clothing blocked sunlight so does their fur/feathers.
Ones without like elephants, rhinos, hippos, all have very very thick skin.
Then reptile scales are completely different than skin, and also very thick, to be able to be out in the sun.
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