Carole C. Noon
Encyclopedia
Carole Cooney Noon was a primatologist best known for founding (in 1997) Save the Chimps
, a Florida non-profit chimpanzee
sanctuary
that is the largest such sanctuary in the world as of 2009.
from the University of Florida
, specializing in captive chimpanzees, and conducted much of her field research at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia
. In 2004 she won the Jane Goodall Award for Lifetime Dedication to the Care of Chimpanzees.
Save the Chimps
Save the Chimps is a publicly financed 501nonprofit American animal sanctuary specializing in the care of chimpanzees. The organization utilizes two separate locations: a temporary sanctuary within a former biomedical research lab located in Alamogordo, New Mexico and a chimpanzee-centric facility...
, a Florida non-profit chimpanzee
Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
sanctuary
Animal sanctuary
An animal sanctuary is a facility where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives. Unlike animal shelters, sanctuaries do not seek to place animals with individuals or groups, instead maintaining each animal until his or her natural death...
that is the largest such sanctuary in the world as of 2009.
Career
Noon earned a doctorate in biological anthropologyBiological anthropology
Biological anthropology is that branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species. It plays an important part in paleoanthropology and in forensic anthropology...
from the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
, specializing in captive chimpanzees, and conducted much of her field research at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
. In 2004 she won the Jane Goodall Award for Lifetime Dedication to the Care of Chimpanzees.
External links
- Save The Chimps (organizational website)