The animals could have been disturbed or even partially deafened, but their mating and migrating activities may have been too important for them to change their patterns of behaviour.
"You all come here and tell lies, " shouted one man as my pleas to be allowed to continue filming fell on ears deafened by the devastating impact of Saturday's bombs.
Ideas of minimizing the noise of a jet as it passes through the sound barrier have been around since Concorde first deafened those living under its flight paths and beyond in 1976.
To hear the effect of wave field synthesis, you have to be inside a WFS hall, where no matter where you're sitting you're enveloped but not deafened by the sound those carefully placed speakers produce.
They have played a decisive role in dozens of environmental victories, from the phasing out of lead in petrol in the 1970s to stopping the navy in 2003 from using a sonar system that would have deafened or even killed whales.