Why do we never see baby squirrels?
Baby squirrels are seen at a fully grown size about 5 weeks after birth, so you do see baby squirrels, but you dont realize it, same as baby pigeons.
Why do we never see baby pidgeons? During their first week of life, the well-hidden baby pigeons are fed a high-fat, high-protein diet of crop milk produced by both parents. They grow very fast. They walk well at about 18 days of age and start exercising their wings about a week later. But because they have been regularly fed by the adults and haven't done much exercising, the babies are often bigger than their parents by the time they start to fly, which is on average 30 to 32 days after hatching.
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