why do not animals sweat?

Answer 1

Some do, like horses.

Answer 2

Mammals are the only animals with sweat glands. Other animals use behaviors to regulate body temperature. The most common example is reptiles basking in the sun to warm up their body temperatures, but they also move into the shade or into water to cool off.

Most mammals do regulate their temperatures using evaporation, which is what sweating does. Those with a lot of hair have a harder time doing it through their skin though. Instead, many, like dogs, pant. This causes evaporation in their mouths and throats that serves the same purpose as sweating.

Others that have shorter hair, such as horses, do sweat. Pigs wallow in mud to cool off. There are a variety of ways for animals to regulate their temperature besides sweating.

Answer 3

'To stay cool, warm-blooded animals sweat or pant to loose heat by water evaporation. They can also cool off by moving into a shaded area or by getting wet. Only mammals can sweat. Primates, such as humans, apes and monkey, have sweat glands all over their bodies. Dogs and cats have sweat glands only on their feet. Whales are mammals who have no sweat glands, but then since they live in the water, they don't really need them. Large mammals can have difficulty cooling down if they get overheated. This is why elephants, for example, have large, thin ears which loose heat quickly. Mammals have hair, fur or blubber, and birds have feathers to help keep them warm. Many mammals have thick coats of fur which keep them warm in winter. They shed much of this fur in the summer to help them cool off and maintain their body temperature. Warm-blooded animals can also shiver to generate more heat when they get too cold. Some warm-blooded animals, especially birds, migrate from colder to warmer regions in the winter. '

Answer 4

Some do. Some don't. Different animals evolved with different mechanisms to deal with getting rid of excess heat. Dogs pant. Humans sweat. Cows lie down and rest in the shade where there is a breeze.

Answer 5

Dogs pant to cool themselves, but they also sweat through their toe pads. I'm pretty sure all animals sweat. It's how the body regulates its temperature.

Answer 6

Some animals do and some do not. They all have different methods of cooling themselves. Human beings and other apes like orangutans and chimpanzees sweat, for example.

Answer 7

all animals warm blooded do sweat, just where their location of the sweat glands are located is the difference

Answer 8

Animals cool themselves in different ways. For example, hogs like Rosy O'donnell wallow in slop to keep from overheating

Answer 9

Horses definetly sweat...after a long or hard ride they are drenched. I dont know why cats and dogs dont.

Answer 10

some do, but dogs (for example) use panting instead to cool off.