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Exploration: Investigating Unfamiliar Things

• Exploration is the process of exploring, with some expectation of discovery, and is common to most organisms capable of directed locomotion and learning.
• Intrinsic exploration is activity not directed towards a specific goal, while extrinsic exploration is directed towards a specific goal.
• Curiosity is a quality related to exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in humans and other animals.
• Travelling in search of discovery is geographical exploration, which is the practice of discovering remote lands and regions of the planet Earth.
• Two major eras of geographical exploration occurred in human history, and early writings about exploration date back to the 4th millennium B.C. in ancient Egypt.
• Underwater exploration is the exploration of any underwater environment and is the most effective method to increase understanding of the ocean and other underwater regions.
• Systematic investigation is done in an orderly and organised manner, generally following a plan. Prospecting for minerals is an example of systematic investigation.
• Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a given phenomenon and is used in many different disciplines.
• Exploration as the pursuit of first-hand experience and knowledge is often an example of diversive and intrinsic exploration.
• Wandering about in the hope or expectation of serendipitous discovery may also be considered a form of diversive exploration.
• A tendency to explore a new environment has been recognised in a wide range of free-moving animals from invertebrates to primates.
• Various forms of exploratory behaviour in animals have been analysed and categorised since 1960.