DO ANIMALS GET SUNBURN?
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Some do. Pigs, for example, have sparse hair and will sunburn easily. Wild pigs spend most of their time in forests, so it isn’t a problem for them, but elephants and rhinos don’t always have somewhere to shelter and can get sunburned. That’s why they wallow in watering holes to give their skin a protective coat of mud. Hippos secrete their own sunblock in the form of a pink liquid that oozes out of the pores in their skin. Sperm whales can spend hours resting and breathing at the surface, and in 2009 researchers found that most of them had sunburn.