In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent is taken off the Earth seconds before it is demolished for a galactic freeway and seconds after his house has been demolished for freeway. Ford Prefect, the friend that has plucked him off the Earth, is a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Together, they, along with two others, journey though the galaxy aided by The Hitchhiker's Guide. They find out that the three smartest animals on Earth are mice, dolphins, and humans.

Mice, the smartest creatures on Earth, are used by humans to conduct experiments and to gather new research. Arthur can not believe at first that these animals could are the smartest. But Slartibartfast, a native of the planet Magrathean, convinced him:

How better to disguise their real natures, and how better to guide your thinking. Suddenly running down a maze the wrong way, eati

Mice, dolphins, and humans are the smartest creatures on Earth, and they all know this. Of the three, humans are the only ones that do not understand the order. The mice know that they are the smartest and run everything on Earth. The dolphins know and understand that the mice are smarter and the humans are dumber than they are. But humans believe that they are the smartest and that they run everything, but in fact they are not they are the third smartest and are led to believe they run everything. In conclusion, "so long and thanks for all the fish" (156).

Slartibartfast explained to Arthur that the Earth was "commissioned, paid for, and run by mice" (163). He explained to Arthur that the mice had been experimenting on humans downing man's existence on Earth. At the end of the book, two mice want to steal Arthur's brain because they think that his brain might contain the Ultimate question.( )

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