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Strictly speaking a speleologist is one who studies caves scientifically. One who simply explores caves, whether in genuine original exploration or visiting known ones, is a Caver, throughout the English-speaking caving world. Besides, most speleologists tend to describe the science as Speleology but themselves as simply cavers to avoid sounding pretentious -and anyway, you have to be a cave to be able to study the inner recesses ofcaves!

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