At the centre of the emblem is a red shield bearing a white crescent (a new moon, representing a rising young nation) and five white stars (representing various national ideals including multiculturalism), supported by a lion and a tiger (representing Singapore and Malaysia respectively); below them is a blue ribbon inscribed with Majulah Singapura in gold, Malay for "Onward Singapore".
The Lion King | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Lion | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | The Wind and the Lion | lion | The Lion King (musical) | Lion Red Cup | Golden Lion | The Lion in Winter | Henry the Lion | Food Lion | Napier Lion | The Lion Sleeps Tonight | sea lion | Old Red Lion Theatre | Nemean lion | Gamelan Son of Lion | Cowardly Lion | White Lion | The Lion in Winter (1968 film) | The Adventure of the Lion's Mane | Paper Lion | Lion of Judah | Lion Group | Jerry and the Lion | In the Skin of a Lion | Asiatic Squadron | The Lion King 1½ | The Asiatic Society |
However, at a Cheetah reintroduction workshop organised in India on 9 September 2009, Stephen J. O'Brien from Laboratory of Genomic Diversity of National Cancer Institute, USA who has in the past conducted numerous prestigious genetic studies - including those on Asiatic lions - said that according to the latest modern genetic studies, it was discovered that the Asiatic cheetah was, in fact, genetically identical to the African Cheetah with which it had separated only about 5000 years ago.