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[โ€“] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] logicbomb@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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.