Suming said this, and immediately everyone's attention shifted to the rhinos. Since the group had appeared, the two rhinos had not moved at all, lying still in the mud with their tails drooping behind them, not swatting flies as they would usually do.
"Darling, you haven't lost your mind, have you?" Ludmila huffed. "It's hot out, of course the rhinos aren't moving. This way, they conserve their energy and avoid unnecessary exhaustion. Our Moran's finest soldiers can even lie still in the mud for twenty-four hours..."
As she was speaking, two workers had already started to try to drive the rhinos away. They were making a huge racket at the edge of the pool—rhinos are actually quite timid and would run back to their 'cave,' which is a corner of the pool with an animal stall, where a large iron cage awaited them—at the first sign of a scare.
Unexpectedly, even though the humans were annoyed by the noise, the two rhinos below remained unresponsive and motionless.
