I would not be surprised if our sense of curiosity evolved from our need to look at diverse species of life and identify some useful properties from them, like some primitive bipedal creature trying to identify what is safe to eat, leave alone, or run away from.
Absent the same environmental pressures driving selection for these traits, its possible that higher life forms could evolve without these behaviors that we humans seem to be biased enough to assume all other intelligent life must have.
Absent the same environmental pressures driving selection for these traits, its possible that higher life forms could evolve without these behaviors that we humans seem to be biased enough to assume all other intelligent life must have.