This reminds me slightly of a 2000AD short story
in which aliens rescue a drowning human, only to put him in an alien zoo and they think the water is his natural environment so they stick him in a giant tank of water.
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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇,
Thu 17 Sep 2015, 18:30,
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How did that work out for the chap?
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Shlvng,
Thu 17 Sep 2015, 22:57,
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