About 50 axis deer crowded around the fence line separating Maui Nui Botanical Gardens and Keopuolani Regional Park, startling the gardens staff on a recent Thursday afternoon. The threat posed by the ...
Axis deer, originally from South Asia ... but DOFAW estimates Maui has nine does for every buck. The deer’s natural predators in South Asia — tigers, leopard, crocodiles, wolves and pythons ...
Additionally, whereas whitetail bucks grow an increasing number of antler points with age, axis deer are almost universally six-pointed. Females have no antlers and have a smaller white patch down ...