Novels for children are overpopulated by orphans, runaways and adoptees.
It was not an ethical problem for him, he says — the animals are overpopulated in his area — but it was not easy emotionally.
Animal welfare activists planned to picket the convention hotel on Saturday, but the club's executive director, Ben Carter, said elephants "in fact, are overpopulated in certain areas of Africa".
"Elephants, lions and leopards are not listed as endangered species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and, in fact, are overpopulated in certain areas of Africa," Carter said in a statement.
Unsanitary conditions are often the underlying cause of parasitic disease, especially in areas that are overpopulated or have poor water quality, or among populations that lack knowledge of parasites.
"The elephants, which are overpopulated in Zimbabwe, constantly attack crops, and the people there are subsistence farmers who don't have the means to drive the elephants away," Mr. Parsons said in a phone interview from Hawaii.
