The new giant pandas make their public debut Thursday at the San Diego Zoo and police are anticipating such huge crowds that they’ve issued a traffic alert for the area. So what is it about pandas that makes us love them so much? Turns out, the answer involves science. “They have something about them that really draws people in and there's a certain term that I think of, sometimes called neoteny,” said Marco Wendt with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Neoteny is the retention of juvenile features in the adult animal. MORE: https://www.cbs8.com/article/entertainment/places/san-diego-zoo/why-do-we-love-pandas/509-8f312e3e-4012-44da-8789-204950353e7e