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 ## Status
 
-For situations where it is hard to calculate progress, you can use the status method which will display a 'spinner' animation with a status message that won't prevent you from writing to the terminal. Here's an example:
+For situations where it is hard to calculate progress, you can use the [status](https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/status.html) method which will display a 'spinner' animation and message. The animation won't prevent you from using the console as normal. Here's an example:
 
 ```python
 from time import sleep
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 ![status](https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/raw/master/imgs/status.gif)
 
+The spinner animations were borrowed from [cli-spinners])https://www.npmjs.com/package/cli-spinners). You can select a spinner by specifying the `spinner` parameter when calling status(). Run the following command to see the available values:
+
+```
+python -m rich.spinner
+```
+
+The above command generate the following output in the terminal:
+
+![spinners](https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/raw/master/imgs/spinners.gif)
+
 ## Columns
 
 Rich can render content in neat [columns](https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/columns.html) with equal or optimal width. Here's a very basic clone of the (MacOS / Linux) `ls` command which displays a directory listing in columns:
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