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I forget who, but some author (maybe Dave Barry?) suggested that if aliens came to Earth, they might think that dogs are the dominant race, since they have humans following them around picking up their shit for them.
Not quite the same thing, but in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams has the alien character Ford Prefect, who came to study Earth under the original impression that cars were the dominant life form. Hence his name.
Hitchhiker's Guide also had the part about how humans thought they were smarter than dolphins because humans worked all day and built things, while dolphins just played around and ate fish, and meanwhile, dolphins thought they were smarter than humans for the exact same reasons.