How to Use axis deer in a Sentence

axis deer

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• This just shows how desperate some of the axis deer were to find shelter from the weather.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Then there was Jordan Davis, who caught heat for harvesting an axis deer in Hawaii.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
• Context matters here, though, because axis deer are an invasive species in Hawaii.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
• Never mind that axis deer are an invasive species that can wreak havoc on the islands' native ecosystems.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
• The park also includes frogs, fish, deer, axis deer, Hawaiian monk seals, bats, and other wild critters.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2021
• That road is flanked on one side by a meadow with waving, waist-high grass and on the other by a knoll of live oaks where a herd of axis deer greets visitors.
  — Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2018
• In the 1860s, the British colony of Hong Kong gave the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi eight axis deer.
  — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
• This includes wild horses, whitetail and axis deer, blackbuck antelope, African oryx, armadillo roadrunners, and more.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2021
• On Molokai, Hawaii’s fifth-largest island, residents are fretting about dry conditions after hundreds of axis deer were found dead of starvation last year.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2021
• In 2007, Molokaʻi hunter Desmund Manaba became the first in Hawaiʻi to win approval to harvest axis deer and sell the meat.
  — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
• Game cameras in the park already have documented cottontail rabbits, armadillos, axis deer (nonnatives brought in by ranchers), opossums — even a bobcat.
  — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 2 Jan. 2021
• Exotic and unusual species, such as nutria in Louisiana and blackbuck, axis deer, and others on ranches in Texas, could take a hit, state officials say.
  — Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 25 Feb. 2021
• For many in Molokai, subsistence strategies such as fishing, hunting (mostly non-native axis deer), and small-scale farming have become economically essential.
  — Wade Graham, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2019
• Today, wildlife officials and conservation groups consider axis deer a major ecological problem.
  — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
• State and federal laws ban nearly all sale of wild game in the US, but federal rules allow USDA inspection and then sale of some non-native species, including axis deer.
  — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026