POSITIONS OF BEASTS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY LIONS

Most other animals use the same descriptive terms for their positioning as do lions. The primary exceptions are stags and the deer family and horses.

passant	passant guardant (top); passant reguardant (bottom)	statant	statant guardant	couchant
rampant	rampant guardant	rampant reguardant	rampant with two heads	two lions rampant combatant
rampant queue-fourché	rampant double queued	rampant, tail nowed	coward	sea lion
tricorporate	salient	sejant erect	sejant	dormant