Answer:
an audio recording of crickets chirping in the backround
I see a child on the counter while a women is taking a photo in the background. The child is then looking back at this lady who is not paying attention to the kid.
The gerund in this sentence is "learning". A gerund is a verb form which is acting as a noun, in this case after the preposition "in".
The answer is monster, as the text itself even compares it to a monster.
"The USS Alabama, built in 1942, is a monster weighing in at 35,000 tons."
