hearing

As Kong gently placed Ann on the ledge at his feet, the cold and the rush of the wind at this extreme height stung her, keeping her senses heightened. He loomed above her, impossibly large, scanning the sky.
For what? She couldn’t even guess.
And then Ann first noticed the dull hum of airplane engines above them in the night sky. Kong’s sharper ears must have detected them. As he had set her atop a dead tree to defend her against the flesh-eating dinosaur, he now tucked her safely at the base of the Empire State Building’s pinnacle to face a new challenge.


Merian C. Cooper's King Kong, Chapter 23