01-13-2014, 01:06 PM
Last summer a fourth Axis deer was killed by hunters in Kau:
http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections...-deer.html
http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news...sland.html
http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/files/2013/0...Report.pdf
Your latter guess was spot on...Introduction of a predator (other than the humans already here) would be devastating to the native bird still existing at elevation.
http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections...-deer.html
http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news...sland.html
http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/files/2013/0...Report.pdf
Your latter guess was spot on...Introduction of a predator (other than the humans already here) would be devastating to the native bird still existing at elevation.