My Dad spotted an article about this gigantic pigeon in the paper this week: (article here). Several years ago, someone who bred pigeons told me that the reason you never saw baby ones was because they doubled in size every day after hatching. This seemed fair enough, until Dad was sitting in the car thinking about it while I was in Tesco, and worked out that after a couple of weeks they'd be about 20 feet tall... Anyway, he thinks this one's probably about a week old ;-)
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So, if we assume a pigeon is 1 inch tall (which is perhaps a little small) when born, after 2 weeks of doubling each day it would be 1365 foot tall, or 400 odd metres :)
-- Michael
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