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This is like a scene fromGoldilocks!
Pandas are just the best, we cant help but love them!
The Congqing reserve has long been known for itswholesomeresidents, regularly uploading videos of their day-to-day activities.
Are we sure they are not men in suits?
Scientists call this phenomenon neoteny
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Why are pandas so cute to us?
Turns outneuroscientistsmight have the answer.
Neoteny is a prevalent feature of our species development, as humans are the most neotenous of all primates.
Studies on the evolutionary merits ofcutenesshave theorized that it acts as a protective mechanism.
As it turns out, their features are highlyneotenous.
In layman terms, they look like giant, fluffy baby bears, even in adulthood.
We are programmed to respond to these babyish looks.
Babies just make us like them and want to care for them.
It is part of our human makeup, he added.
These are just blokes in suits!
These pandas are justtoo perfect, theyve got to be humans in costumes, another theorized.
If I could choose another career Id love to be a baby panda attendant, one viewer said.
Ive watched videos over the years and they are so entertaining and yes, humanlike.
They areadorable, recounted another.
Pandas are just the best!
Pass the bamboo like!
wrote one fan, as others joined in to marvel at the pandas cuteness
