Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
for Purnie's game—but his new Purnie ran laughing and shouting through the forest until he could run With everything around him in a state of perfect tableau, Purnie three-legged tripons who never stopped munching on seaweed, and many kinds of other wonderful creatures found only at the ocean. Purnie had stopped time, the bees—like all the other creatures he time without an adult being present, may not live to regret it." frozen in a steep glide, preparatory to a beach landing. Purnie had heard of these playful creatures many times. Today, with his brothers in school, he would have the pets all to himself. Further down the beach was a pair of two-legged animals poised in mid-step, facing the spot where Purnie now stood. Some distance behind them were eight animation. And down in the water, where the ocean ran itself into thin nothingness upon the sand, he saw standing here and there the comical tripons, those three-legged marine buffoons who made handsome careers of munching seaweed. "Hi there!" Purnie called. When he got no reaction, he remembered that with continuing sureness. It was time itself that Purnie had stopped, The tripon thought Purnie's feat was superb. It stopped munching long Purnie ran from pillar to post, trying to see and do everything at the two-legged animals, he started to burst forth with his habitual "Hi there!" when he heard them making sounds of their own. "... will be no limit to my operations now, Benson. This planet makes "Hi there, wanna play?" Purnie's invitation got nothing more than startled glance from the animals who quickly returned to their chatter. The animals stopped so suddenly that Purnie nearly tangled himself in your money that put us here it's your expedition all the way. But you hired me to get you here with the best crew on earth, and that's just what I've done. My job isn't over yet. I'm responsible for the safety of the men while we're here, and for the safe trip home." "Precisely. And since you're responsible, get 'em working. Tell 'em to bring along the flag. Look at the damn fools back there, playing in the ocean with a three-legged ostrich!" "Good God, man, aren't you human? We've only been on this planet twenty minutes! Naturally they want to look around. They half expected to find wild animals or worse, and here we are surrounded by quaint little creatures that run up to us like we're long-lost brothers. Let the men look around a minute or two before we stake out your claim." "Bah! Bunch of damn children." will you get this bug-eyed kangaroo away from me!" Purnie shrieked with more of the creatures came along making excited noises, apparently now!" When the three animals went back to join the rest of their group, the first two resumed walking. Purnie followed along. the people who are foolish enough to buy land on them." "I could have your hide for talking to me like this. Damn you, man! It's people like me who pay your way. It's people like me who give your When they stopped, Purnie stopped. At first he had been interested in the strange sounds they were making, but as he grew used to them, and as they in turn ignored his presence, he hopped alongside chattering to himself, content to be in their company. Purnie saw one of the animals hovering around him with a little box. He was overjoyed at the reaction. They all started making wonderful "Now wait a minute, Forbes. Universal Law forbids—" "This is my planet and I am the law. Put him in a box!" "With my crew as witness, I officially protest—" "Good God, what a specimen to take back. Radio-active animals! Why, they can reproduce themselves, of course! There must be thousands of these creatures around here someplace. And to think of those damn fools on Earth with their plutonium piles! Hah! Now I'll have investors box, so what's the difference? Put him in a box." "He'll die." "I have you under contract, Benson! You are responsible to me, and what's more, you are on my property. Put him in a box." Purnie was tired. First the time-stopping, then this. While this day happily exhausted, hoping that his friends would show him some of their own tricks. He didn't have to wait long. The animals forming the circle stepped back and made way for two others who came through carrying a box. Purnie sat up to watch the show. "I swear he knows what we're saying. Look at those eyes." "All right, careful now with that line." "Come on, baby. Here you go. That's a boy!" Purnie took in these sounds with perplexed concern. He sensed the He watched the animals huddle around the box on the beach, their and at last Purnie knew that the idea was to get him into the box. The pang in his leg was nothing: Purnie's misery lay in his confusion. transverse waves back to one of the two-legged animals. Purnie dragged hissing sound whenever Purnie was near. These things told him nothing. animals. When Purnie started time again, the animal with the noose stood in spot where Purnie had been standing. Then another of the animals, the one with the smoking thing in his to them time had never stopped. The only thing they could be sure of was that at one moment there had been a fuzzy creature hopping around Purnie moved across the top of the rockpile for a last look at his distance to the sand. Purnie fell back onto solid ground, horrified at the spectacle before him. The agonizing screams of the animals below "I didn't mean it!" Purnie screamed. "I'm sorry! Can't you hear?" He Purnie worked his way down the hill, imploring them to save themselves. Purnie could wait no longer. The tides were all but covering one of the animals, and soon the others would be in the same plight. Disregarding tugged the animal up to the sand. Through blinding tears, Purnie worked logs. Purnie worked the animal free and pulled it ashore. a new position. Purnie whimpered in black misery as he surveyed the him. For Purnie, this would be death. If he had to lose consciousness, Then, without knowing exactly when it happened, his mind took command.... His friends came to life. The first one he saw stir lay on his stomach Purnie as sounds came from the animal. "What's the matter with me? Somebody tell me! Am I nuts? Miles! Schick! we're both cracking." "I'm telling you, man, it's the logs, or rocks or whatever they are. "Hell, Rhodes, don't you think I'd like to know? Those logs are so old they're petrified. The whole bunch of us couldn't lift one. It would take super-human energy to move one of those things." "I haven't seen anything super-human. Those ostriches down there are so busy eating seaweed—" "All right, let's bear a hand here with the others. Some of them can't Purnie opened his eyes as consciousness returned. Had his friends gone? "Is it possible that we're all crazy, Captain?" "It's possible, but we're not." "I wish I could be sure." As Purnie lay gathering strength for the long trek home, he saw through Purnie paid little attention to the antics of his friend beyond understanding. He wondered what they would say at home when he returned. "We've made a terrible mistake. We—" The sounds faded in and out on Purnie's ears as the creature turned slowly and called in different shadow was cast around the animal. With foggy awareness, Purnie watched Purnie's eyes stared, without seeing, at the panorama before him. The white square floating on the ocean. Across it, the last thing Purnie

<question>:
Who are the animals that Purnie plays with?

<options>:
A They are three-legged ostriches.
B They are a flock of spora.
C They are mannikins.
D They are humans.

<answer>:

D