Shaw-le

The shaw-le was a cryptid antelope reported from the Semliki region of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Reported to Henry Morton Stanley, Harry Johnston, and W. G. Doggett, it was described as a large tragelaphine antelope, resembling the nilgai, with short, twisted horns.

Zoologist Phillip Sclater had little doubt that the shaw-le was actually the bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci), but Johnstone and Doggett found that local people readily distinguished it from that antelope. Chad Arment also notes that the bongo is not known from the area, even historically.