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Sang Nila Utama saw a strange animal with an orange body, black head and a white neck breast. It was a fine-looking animal and moved with great speed as it disappeared into the jungle.
He asked his chief minister what animal it was, and was told that it probably was a lion.
He decided to build his new city in Temasek an named this city "Singapura". The name thus means the "Lion City".

I think he saw one of those fiesty diagonal cat with chopped tail... went back home and did the fisherman tail: the cat was this... this... this big... you know what? It was a Lion!

Hence a mere cat... lead to the merlion.

Description
Sang Nila Utama saw a strange animal with an orange body, black head and a white neck breast. It was a fine-looking animal and moved with great speed as it disappeared into the jungle.
He asked his chief minister what animal it was, and was told that it probably was a lion.
He decided to build his new city in Temasek an named this city "Singapura". The name thus means the "Lion City".

I think he saw one of those fiesty diagonal cat with chopped tail... went back home and did the fisherman tail: the cat was this... this... this big... you know what? It was a Lion!

Hence a mere cat... lead to the merlion.