But the biologist and two assistants also spent time picking up more 12-gauge shotgun shells, which could be distinguished from old shells left behind by duck hunters because the new brass still gleamed in the sun.
He saw that, whereas females groomed males and other females for social and political reasons — to affirm a friendship or make nice to a dominant — and mothers groomed their young to soothe and clean them, when an adult male spent time picking parasites from an adult female's hide, he expected compensation in the form of copulation, or at the very least a close genital inspection.
"We've already spent time picking each other's brains and talking about things that we do.
Though we had spent time picking over the circumstances of the death and the evidence that didn't fit, there were certain things about the beginning of the story that I had never fully understood.
"If you're a doctor and you spend time picking out your clothes, you don't want to cover them up with any old lab coat," Dr. Katchen said.
Often, there's a rush to get going with a project, and it may seem unnecessary to spend time picking countertops and light fixtures.
With a professional logistician managing stock and deliveries, the health facilities no longer need to place orders and spend time picking up products.
Many landscape supply centres sell large rocks, although you may have to spend time picking through them to find ones with character.
By spending time picking on the fact that today's bright kids are becoming literate in technology (one kid even likens it to learning a new language), she misses the opportunity to skewer the more troublesome aspects of Valley culture.
Madonna abuses CC even as he wipes down her sweaty naked flanks as her tour dresser, a job he hates ('I never tell [friends] that I spend my time picking up her sweaty underwear').
"Now I need to spend my time picking up dollars".
