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	"name":"animal ambulate specs",
	"version":"1.2.3",
	"description":"Speed and step-rate specs from the animal kingdom",
	"status":"A pokedex of mother nature’s engineering",
	"copyright":"(C) 2025 Simon Armstrong",
	"credit":"Curated by Simon Armstrong with huge help from Kimi K2, Grok (xAI) and ChatGPT",
	"license":{"name":"MIT","url":"https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"},
	"repository":{"type":"git","url":"https://github.com/nitrologic/biblispec"},
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}