Assertion: hippo's skin | /r/HasProperty | sensitive
Facets:
value: extremely
type: DEGREE
value: to the sun
type: CAUSE
value: to sunburn
type: CAUSE
value: to both drying
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: They may spend time in the water to cool off during the day as the skin is sensitive to the sunlight.
text: The skin of a hippopotamus is relatively sensitive to the sun and can burn and even dry and crack when exposed for too long, this forces them to spend most of the daylight hours submerged in the protection of water.
text: All day hippopotamuses spend in water, after all at them – extremely sensitive skin reacting to the slightest touch.
text: Hippos have very delicate and sensitive skin.
text: Their skin is very sensitive to both drying and sunburn, so the secretion acts like an automatic skin ointment.
text: Hippos can’t survive for long out of water because their skin is extremely sensitive to direct sunlight, which is why they secrete a red, oily substance, once thought to be blood, that serves as both a sunscreen and an antibiotic.