What animals sweat?

Animals in the mammalian class, including elephants, dogs, cats, apes, bats, sloths, lemurs, horses and beavers, have sweat glands and sweat through either their eccrine, their apocrine sweat glands or both. Primate mammals, such as apes, gorillas and humans, have eccrine sweat glands all over their bodies. read more

Perspiration, also known as sweating, is the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body. read more

As it turns out, only animals who are mammals have sweat glands. You've probably noticed that you don't see cats and dogs sweating like humans. Although cats and dogs are mammals like us, most mammals don't have large numbers of sweat glands like humans do. read more