Via Flickr user Crazy Ivory

In honor of Maru's special day, below is the third annual Maru video clip compilation.

Boxes, boxes everywhere!

I hope this sleepy baby bunny video will drift you into dreamland.

Remember our "Cat on a cat" cat?

Well, meet Polly, a ten-week-old tabby, has the word 'cat' spelt out on her left flank! 

An old White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) displaying it's dominance. Hortobagy National Park, Hungary.

Csaba Tökölyi

It's still raining in New York City. I hope this Sparrow from Justysiak cheers you up.

"The calls act as an instinctive warning to leave the hive, but the frequency confuses the bees, causing them to fly erratically. The study found that the bees' buzzing noise increases ten times when a cell phone is ringing or making a call – aka when signals are being transmitted, but remained normal when not in use." Read more

Baby animals from The Animal Print Shop

From the photographer: 

"It's hard enough to make original pictures, but with some subjects it simply borders the impossible.

When I was at Victoria Falls last year, I thought about the billions of photographs that must have been taken there, and I almost decided to just visit the place without my camera. That was until I spoke with some of the local people, who told me that they had seen a bull elephant crossing the Zambezi river the day before. During my research I had not seen any images of the falls with an elephant in it, so I decided to stay a few extra days and try my luck.