Do animals know better than to look at the sun?

This is probably a really dumb question, but do animals know better than to look directly at the sun?

It seems like they're smarter than us, when it comes to dealing with nature anyway, and they just instinctively know things that we have to be taught (or learn the hard way).

The reason I'm asking is because I had Chipper outside today. It has started getting a little bit cooler, and so I wanted to take her out to enjoy the nice weather. I have a smaller cage that I use when I take her places. She loved it and was chirping and looking around everywhere. I had her in a little bit of shade, but the sun was still clearly visible over head through a gap in the trees. She got curious about something and kept looking up at something. I was really afraid that she might have been looking at the sun, or at least looking a little too close to it when she was watching whatever she was curious about. It made me a little nervous that she might damage her eyes. I was always taught, as far back as I can remember, to never look directly at the sun because the ultraviolet and infrared will burn your eyes.

Do animals know better than to look directly at the sun? I don't think I've ever read anything about vets noticing animals with eye damage from the sun. But I don't know.

I've always taken all my parrots outside and never had an issue with them looking at the sun. I think they just know better.

I'm sure that Mother Nature teaches the animals how to live best in Her world. Their eyes, like most everything else, are different than ours. Just for information, though, their eyes can be hurt by brightness, if not used to it. I know of one Cockatoo, that was kept in a dark closet for much of it's life because it made too much noise in the house. When it was rescued from its abusive owners, the well meaning rescuers brought it outside into the sunlight, and it was immediately blinded. And was blind for the rest of it's life. I was not involved in that rescue, but, know one of the rescuers, who has carried the horrible guilt of that event to this day.