Ducklings are good at many things: delivering the mail, hanging out at the pub, and crossing busy highways.

They're not so skilled, however, at jumping down steep steps, as is evidenced in a cute video posted on YouTube.

"In front of the library at UMBC [University of Maryland Baltmore County], the mother forced those little guys to jump down 3 giant steps, it took like 5 minuets to go down each one," wrote YouTube user Faisal Mahmood.

Watch the adorable duckling overcome their fear of heights below.

"I see the potential for a Disney movie here...It will be called A Ducks Life," one YouTube viewer commented.

We've heard it before: the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

In "Omelette," CalArts student Madeline Sharafian's second-year film, a clever little dog looks after his depressed and exhausted owner by making sure he's well-fed.

"I wanted to make something that focuses on how meaningful it is to make food for someone you love. My family's lives practically revolve around cooking for each other, so it's a theme that I'm deeply attached to. I hope you enjoy it!" she writes.

Watch her heartwarming hand-drawn animated short below.

"Perfect video to start the day on," Sam Morrill writes on Vimeo.

"Vimeo has a like button, but it really needs a Love button. This was adorable! Wonderful storytelling at a great pace. Everything felt very carefully thought through, and lovingly crafted. Thank you for this!" adds viewer Steve Tsuida.

Redditor evilenglish was helping his family clear out his grandparents' old farmhouse in Tennessee last week when he discovered a block of concrete on the floor of a closet under a staircase.

"This was very out of place since all of the downstairs flooring is hardwood," he wrote. "I pushed the carpet back further and saw a round cap with a circle indentation on it. I pulled off the cap and...A Secret Safe!"

Evilenglish and his family were preparing the farmhouse for sale following the death of his father, who had inherited the home from his parents.

He noted that his grandparents were collectors: his grandfather collected firearms, his grandmother collected coins and other antiques.

Upon discovering the safe, evilenglish called a locksmith — and started updating his fellow redditors on the unfolding story, including why he had reason to believe things of value were stashed inside:

"I should also say that early last year my brother in law and I was moving some of the furniture. He went to

Move over, Jurassic Park. We're now obsessed with a family-friendly alternative: Elastic Park.

Led by the innovative Larry Moss, the balloon artist collective Airigami recently created a 20-foot balloon dinosaur at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH).

Check out the making of the best balloon animal ever:

"We’ve built dinosaurs before, but this is the first time we were able to build alongside a cast of an actual dinosaur skeleton. Having a life-size model next to us sure made the construction a lot easier. Our design, based on images we found online, was pretty accurate, but it was nice to be able to look up and take measurements off of the real thing," Moss wrote on Airigami's blog.

Volunteers and visiting schoolchildren gave the team a hand:

"Several classes of kindergarten and first grade students learned to twist balloons and helped make some of the ground cover in the display."

The huge acrocanthosaurus, a dinosaur from the early cretaceous period, will be on display until it

Ehab Sadeek, the owner of Bagel Land in Winchester, Massachusetts, is donating 100 per cent of the profits from his business to One Fund Boston until every bombing victim is out of the hospital.

Watch an interview with Sadeek at CBS Boston.

As of Monday, 29 victims were still hospitalized. Sadeek has donated more than $1,000 so far.

"I hope they come home soon, but we are committed to do it," Sadeek told WBZ NewsRadio 1030.

For Sadeek, an Egyptian Muslim, the act of generosity is an important one.

"They don't represent my faith. They don't represent my religion. They will not hijack my religion," he said of the bombers. "Being a Muslim, I felt I cannot stay quiet about that."

He insists his financial sacrifice, one that has impressed his loyal customers, is nothing compared to what the victims are enduring:

"Some of them have given their own life. Nothing compares to that."

One Fund Boston helps families of those affected by the Boston Marathon tragedy.

"I am humbled by the outpouring of

"I want to celebrate my life by celebrating the woman who gave me life."

Canadian YouTube user iProjectAtlas celebrated his birthday with a beautifully selfless and generous gesture: he paid off his mother's mortgage.

"So for the last two and half years I've been saving my money, hoping to do right by a very special woman in my life. I know a lot of my friends wanted me to go out, to celebrate, but this for me is far greater then any gift/party I can hope for," he wrote on YouTube.

He captured her reaction on video:

"Wow."

On Reddit, he explained that he managed to save the lump sum on a salary of just $30,000 a year:

"I was only making 30k a year when I had reached the intended mark," he wrote. "I quit drinking 3 years ago, quit drugs, though I do go out every now and then I only spending maybe 10 dollars on those weekends…I mean all the numbers aside there is one thing i do believe, when there is a goal you truly want to reach all the other things in your life begin to work around it. Then

Reykjavik mayor Jon Gnarr (L), wearing an Obi Wan outfit of Star Wars fame, and Brighter Future party chairperson Heida Kristin Helgadottir attend Iceland's general elections in Reykjavik, April 27, 2013.Jon Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city, made quite the fashion statement when he cast his vote in a parliamentary election last Saturday: he dressed as a Jedi.

A photo of Gnarr voting in his Star Wars best was posted to Reddit.

Gnarr, a former punk rocker, actor and comedian, has been mayor since 2010. He founded the Best Party — described as a "satirical political party that parodied Icelandic politics" — in 2009 as a joke. He had no political experience at the time.

He won the city council election six months later.

"No one has to be afraid of the Best Party because it is the best party. If it wasn’t, it would be called the 'Worst Party' or the 'Bad Party.' We would never work with a party like that," he said in his acceptance speech.

Dubbed "the most interesting mayor in the world," Gnarr still insists he's not a politician. He frequently dresses up in costumes and in drag. He connects with his constituents through social media.

And even with his unconventional approach to

When Ester Kacev's cat Buddy kept sniffing and biting under her arm, Kavec took the hint: she booked a mammogram.

The mother of three from Dianella, Western Australia, is now a breast-cancer survivor, alive and well thanks to the stray cat she took in several years ago.

"My kids always say that I rescued that cat and now the cat has saved me," Kacev told the Eastern Reporter.

"I never in a million years thought it would happen to me," Kacev said of her cancer diagnosis. "In fact, I had turned down previous appointments because I felt so well and it wasn’t in the family."

"Then the strangest thing was happening and I had read stories that animals can sniff out illness and my cat kept doing that to me. It was then that I thought maybe I should go for a mammogram and that’s how it was detected," she added.

After surgery and radiation, Kacev went into remission. Buddy the cat no longer sniffs under her arm.

"I’m a private person but if someone reads my story and it helps save at least one life,