I just cut down a whole grove of paw paws. I had so many of them that they were choking out some other things in the yard. I still have two other varieties of paw paws and that will be more than enough. This year the ground was almost covered with them even though I gave a lot away.
I like to eat them fresh, in a milk shake, or as bread. They taste like a cross between a banana and maybe a mango.
We have deer come through the yard frequently but I've never seen evidence that they ate the paw paws, just everything else.
One of the reasons paw paws are unfamiliar to most people is because they have no shelf life. They rot in just a couple of days after falling from the tree. If they lasted longer, and could be shipped then they would be in the supermarkets.