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${groupTitle}

Step ${stepCounter}

${i === 0 ? 'Step 1' : `Step ${i + 1}`}

Jay Kakade

Science writer

When researchers strapped tiny cameras to 15 ocean birds in Japan, they made an unexpected discovery