A small South African antelope, also called a Dauw or Douw—possibly a variant name for a specific gazelle species.
From Afrikaans or indigenous South African languages. The term entered English through colonial accounts of African wildlife.
Animal names from colonized regions often got garbled in translation—'dauw' is so obscure that modern naturalists debate whether it refers to a specific species or a generic regional name.
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