<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>HideShark — new animal guides</title><description>HideShark is a friendly, carefully researched encyclopedia of the animal kingdom — clear facts, gentle animation, and a page for every creature.</description><link>https://www.hideshark.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>American Bison</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/american-bison/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/american-bison/</guid><description>The American bison is North America&apos;s largest land animal and its greatest conservation comeback — from tens of millions to a few hundred, and back. Learn how it shapes the prairie.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>Arctic Fox</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/arctic-fox/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/arctic-fox/</guid><description>The Arctic fox has the warmest fur of any mammal, changes colour with the seasons, and can raise a litter of 18 in a lemming boom. Learn how it survives −50 °C and follows polar bears for scraps.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>polar</category></item><item><title>Barn Owl</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/barn-owl/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/barn-owl/</guid><description>The barn owl hunts in total darkness by sound alone, guided by its heart-shaped face and lopsided ears. Learn how its silent flight works and why farmers put up nest boxes for it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>birds</category><category>grassland</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>Black Mamba</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/black-mamba/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/black-mamba/</guid><description>The black mamba is Africa&apos;s most feared snake — long, fast, and armed with a fast-acting neurotoxic venom. Learn where the name comes from, how dangerous it really is, and why it usually flees.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>reptiles</category><category>savanna</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>Box Jellyfish</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/box-jellyfish/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/box-jellyfish/</guid><description>The Australian box jellyfish carries enough venom to kill a person in minutes, hunts actively with 24 eyes, and swims rather than drifts. Learn what makes this cube-shaped animal so deadly.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>invertebrates</category><category>ocean</category><category>coastal</category></item><item><title>Bull Shark</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/bull-shark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/bull-shark/</guid><description>The bull shark is the shark that swims up rivers — hundreds or thousands of kilometres into fresh water. Learn how it survives there, why it&apos;s rated among the most dangerous sharks, and its status.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fish</category><category>ocean</category><category>coastal</category><category>wetlands</category></item><item><title>Cane Toad</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/cane-toad/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/cane-toad/</guid><description>The cane toad was released in Australia in 1935 to eat beetles and became one of the worst invasive species in the world. Learn why it is toxic, how far it has spread, and what is being done.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>amphibians</category><category>grassland</category><category>wetlands</category></item><item><title>Capybara</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/capybara/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/capybara/</guid><description>The capybara is the world&apos;s largest rodent — a 50-kilogram, semi-aquatic grazer famous for its calm tolerance of almost every other animal. Learn how it lives in the wetlands of South America.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>wetlands</category><category>grassland</category><category>rainforest</category></item><item><title>Cougar</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/cougar/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/cougar/</guid><description>The cougar goes by more names than any other animal and roams from the Yukon to Patagonia. Learn why it isn&apos;t a &quot;big cat&quot;, how far it can leap, and why it screams instead of roars.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>mountains</category><category>forest</category><category>desert</category></item><item><title>Coyote</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/coyote/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/coyote/</guid><description>The coyote has expanded across North America and into its cities faster than any other large predator, thriving under intense hunting pressure. Learn how it adapts, hunts, and outlasts persecution.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>grassland</category><category>desert</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>Echidna</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/echidna/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/echidna/</guid><description>The echidna is a spine-covered, egg-laying mammal that has no teeth, senses prey by electric field, and can lower its body temperature almost to freezing. Learn how this ancient oddity survives.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category><category>grassland</category><category>desert</category></item><item><title>Electric Eel</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/electric-eel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/electric-eel/</guid><description>The electric eel is not an eel but a knifefish that generates up to 860 volts — the strongest electric discharge of any animal. Learn how it stuns prey, breathes air, and leaps to shock threats.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fish</category><category>wetlands</category><category>rainforest</category></item><item><title>Emperor Scorpion</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/emperor-scorpion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/emperor-scorpion/</guid><description>The emperor scorpion is one of the largest scorpions on Earth, yet its sting is milder than a bee&apos;s — it kills with its massive pincers instead. Learn why it glows under UV and carries its young.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>invertebrates</category><category>rainforest</category></item><item><title>Fire Salamander</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/fire-salamander/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/fire-salamander/</guid><description>The fire salamander wears black-and-yellow warning colours, squirts a nerve toxin from glands behind its eyes, and in some populations gives birth to live young. Learn about this striking amphibian.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>amphibians</category><category>forest</category><category>mountains</category></item><item><title>Gentoo Penguin</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/gentoo-penguin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/gentoo-penguin/</guid><description>The gentoo penguin is the fastest bird in the water, hitting 36 km/h underwater, and it courts its mate with a gift of pebbles. Learn how gentoos live at the edge of Antarctica.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>birds</category><category>coastal</category><category>ocean</category><category>polar</category></item><item><title>Golden Eagle</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/golden-eagle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/golden-eagle/</guid><description>The golden eagle is one of the largest and most widespread birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere, a mountain hunter that stoops on prey at highway speeds. Learn how it lives and hunts.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>birds</category><category>mountains</category><category>grassland</category><category>desert</category></item><item><title>Goliath Frog</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/goliath-frog/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/goliath-frog/</guid><description>The goliath frog is the largest frog on Earth, big enough to move rocks its own body weight to build egg nurseries. Learn how it lives in West African waterfalls and why it is Endangered.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>amphibians</category><category>rainforest</category></item><item><title>Great Hammerhead Shark</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/great-hammerhead-shark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/great-hammerhead-shark/</guid><description>The great hammerhead is the largest hammerhead shark, using its wing-shaped head to detect and pin stingrays on the seabed. Once common, it is now Critically Endangered from the fin trade.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fish</category><category>ocean</category><category>coastal</category></item><item><title>Honey Badger</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/honey-badger/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/honey-badger/</guid><description>The honey badger has loose armour-like skin, partial resistance to snake venom, and a documented talent for escaping any enclosure. Learn why it takes on cobras, lions, and beehives.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>savanna</category><category>grassland</category><category>desert</category></item><item><title>Honeybee</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/honeybee/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/honeybee/</guid><description>The honeybee runs a colony of tens of thousands, navigates by the sun, and tells hivemates where to find flowers with a dance. Learn how the hive works and what&apos;s behind the decline in bee health.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>invertebrates</category><category>grassland</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>King Penguin</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/king-penguin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/king-penguin/</guid><description>The king penguin is the second-largest penguin, with the longest breeding cycle of any bird — over a year per chick. Learn how its brown, woolly-looking chicks survive a sub-Antarctic winter.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>birds</category><category>coastal</category><category>ocean</category><category>polar</category></item><item><title>Koala</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/koala/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/koala/</guid><description>The koala is a marsupial — not a bear — that eats only toxic eucalyptus leaves and sleeps up to 22 hours a day. Learn how it survives that diet and why it&apos;s now Endangered in eastern Australia.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>Leopard Seal</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/leopard-seal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/leopard-seal/</guid><description>The leopard seal is Antarctica&apos;s top seal predator — a huge, reptilian-headed hunter that kills penguins and other seals but also filters krill through its teeth. Learn how this loner lives.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>polar</category><category>ocean</category><category>coastal</category></item><item><title>Manta Ray</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/manta-ray/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/manta-ray/</guid><description>The manta ray is the largest ray in the sea — a 7-metre, plankton-eating fish with the biggest brain of any fish and a curiosity about divers. Learn how it feeds, breeds, and why it is Endangered.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fish</category><category>ocean</category><category>coastal</category></item><item><title>Meerkat</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/meerkat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/meerkat/</guid><description>The meerkat lives in tight cooperative gangs where members take turns standing guard, babysitting, and teaching pups to handle scorpions. Learn how a meerkat mob works and survives the Kalahari.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>desert</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>Moose</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/moose/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/moose/</guid><description>The moose is the largest deer on Earth, tall enough to wade chest-deep and dive for water plants. Learn about its two-metre antlers and why warming winters are killing it with ticks.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category><category>wetlands</category></item><item><title>North American Beaver</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/north-american-beaver/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/north-american-beaver/</guid><description>The North American beaver is the continent&apos;s largest rodent and its most powerful ecosystem engineer, felling trees and damming streams to build the ponds it lives in. Learn how it works.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>wetlands</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>Ostrich</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/ostrich/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/ostrich/</guid><description>The ostrich is the largest and heaviest bird alive, the fastest thing on two legs, and the layer of the biggest egg of any living animal. Learn how a bird this size survives on the African plains.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>birds</category><category>savanna</category><category>grassland</category><category>desert</category></item><item><title>Peregrine Falcon</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/peregrine-falcon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/peregrine-falcon/</guid><description>The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on the planet, hitting nearly 390 km/h in a hunting dive. Learn how its body survives that speed and how it came back from near-extinction.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>birds</category><category>mountains</category><category>coastal</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>Plains Zebra</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/plains-zebra/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/plains-zebra/</guid><description>The plains zebra is the most common wild horse, famous for stripes no two animals share. Learn what the stripes are actually for, why zebras were never tamed, and how their herds work.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>savanna</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>Platypus</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/platypus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/platypus/</guid><description>The platypus is a venomous, egg-laying mammal that hunts with its eyes shut, sensing prey by electric field. Learn how this Australian oddity works and why it is now Near Threatened.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>wetlands</category></item><item><title>Praying Mantis</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/praying-mantis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/praying-mantis/</guid><description>The praying mantis is an ambush hunter that strikes in under 70 milliseconds, turns its head 180 degrees, and hears bats with a single ear. Learn how it hunts and the truth about sexual cannibalism.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>invertebrates</category><category>grassland</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>Pronghorn</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/pronghorn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/pronghorn/</guid><description>The pronghorn is the fastest land animal in the Americas and Earth&apos;s best distance runner — built to escape a predator that went extinct 12,000 years ago. Learn about its speed and odd horns.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>grassland</category><category>desert</category></item><item><title>Red Panda</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/red-panda/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/red-panda/</guid><description>The red panda is not a panda and not a raccoon — it is the sole survivor of its own family, a cat-sized bamboo eater with a false thumb. Learn how it lives in the Himalaya and why it is Endangered.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>mountains</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>Sea Otter</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/sea-otter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/sea-otter/</guid><description>The sea otter has no blubber and survives the cold Pacific on the densest fur of any animal, using rocks to crack shellfish. Learn how it keeps kelp forests alive — and why it is Endangered.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>coastal</category><category>ocean</category></item><item><title>Sloth Bear</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/sloth-bear/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/sloth-bear/</guid><description>The sloth bear is a shaggy, termite-slurping bear of the Indian subcontinent that carries its cubs on its back — and is responsible for more human maulings than any other bear. Learn how and why.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>Snow Leopard</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/snow-leopard/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/snow-leopard/</guid><description>The snow leopard is the elusive big cat of Asia&apos;s highest mountains, with a metre-long tail for balance and warmth. Learn how it survives thin cold air — and why it can&apos;t roar.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>mountains</category></item><item><title>Sun Bear</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/sun-bear/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/sun-bear/</guid><description>The sun bear is the smallest bear on Earth, with a 25-centimetre tongue for raiding beehives and a chest patch shaped like a rising sun. Learn how this tree-climbing forest bear lives.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>rainforest</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>Tasmanian Devil</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/tasmanian-devil/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/tasmanian-devil/</guid><description>The Tasmanian devil is the world&apos;s largest carnivorous marsupial — a bone-crushing scavenger fighting a contagious cancer that has killed most of the wild population. Learn how it&apos;s being saved.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>Tiger Shark</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/tiger-shark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/tiger-shark/</guid><description>The tiger shark eats almost anything — turtles, seabirds, dolphins, other sharks, and the occasional car tyre. Learn how its serrated teeth and roaming lifestyle make it a key ocean predator.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fish</category><category>ocean</category><category>coastal</category></item><item><title>Walrus</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/walrus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/walrus/</guid><description>The walrus uses its metre-long tusks to haul onto ice and its 700 whiskers to find clams on the dark seabed. Learn how this Arctic giant feeds, why it turns pink, and how ice loss threatens it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>polar</category><category>coastal</category><category>ocean</category></item><item><title>Wandering Albatross</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wandering-albatross/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wandering-albatross/</guid><description>The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird and can glide for days without flapping, circling the globe on the wind. Learn how it flies so efficiently and why it is Vulnerable.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>birds</category><category>ocean</category><category>coastal</category></item><item><title>Wild Boar</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wild-boar/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wild-boar/</guid><description>The wild boar is the ancestor of the domestic pig, one of the most widespread mammals on Earth, and — as feral hogs — one of the most destructive invasive animals. Learn how it lives and spreads.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category><category>grassland</category><category>wetlands</category></item><item><title>Wolverine</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wolverine/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wolverine/</guid><description>The wolverine is a 15-kilogram member of the weasel family that drives bears off carcasses and hunts prey in deep snow. Learn how it survives the far north and why warm winters threaten it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category><category>mountains</category><category>polar</category></item><item><title>Wombat</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wombat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/wombat/</guid><description>The wombat is a burrowing Australian marsupial with a backward-facing pouch, a bum made of armour, and — uniquely in the animal kingdom — cube-shaped droppings. Learn how and why.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>forest</category><category>grassland</category></item><item><title>African Elephant</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/african-elephant/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/african-elephant/</guid><description>The African elephant is the largest land animal alive, with a 40,000-muscle trunk and a 22-month pregnancy. Learn how herds are led by matriarchs and why ivory poaching still threatens them.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mammals</category><category>savanna</category><category>grassland</category><category>forest</category></item><item><title>American Alligator</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/american-alligator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/american-alligator/</guid><description>The American alligator is a freshwater ambush predator and an ecosystem engineer whose &quot;gator holes&quot; keep wetlands alive. Learn how it survives freezing water and how it came back from the brink.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>reptiles</category><category>wetlands</category></item><item><title>Axolotl</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/axolotl/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/axolotl/</guid><description>The axolotl is a salamander that never grows up — it keeps its gills and stays underwater for life, and it can regrow lost limbs. Learn why it&apos;s beloved in labs and nearly extinct in the wild.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>amphibians</category><category>wetlands</category></item><item><title>Bald Eagle</title><link>https://www.hideshark.com/animals/bald-eagle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.hideshark.com/animals/bald-eagle/</guid><description>The bald eagle is a fish-hunting sea eagle and a rare conservation success — back from near-extinction in the US. 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