While "statant" is used in reference to predatory beasts, the more docile animals when in this position may be called at bay, while such creatures "statant guardant" are said to be at gaze.
While "statant" is used in reference to predatory beasts, the more docile animals when in this position are sometimes blazoned at bay, though this term hardly, if ever, appears in any reliable source. Stags "statant guardant" are said to be at gaze.