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Inspired by biological locomotion, we developed a parameterized expert model of joint angles in the pika (\n                    <jats:italic>Ochotonidae<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), a small-scale cursorial animal, and employed it to generate optimized foot-end trajectories. We further explored the optimal gaits using RL to maximize the motor performance of the generated reference trajectories on the robotic quadruped. Notably, the policy achieves coordinated motion highly correlated with biological data and exhibits stable limit-cycle dynamics. The experimental results demonstrate a substantial speed improvement over baseline RL. 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