query: occupation carole c. noon
supports: Save the Chimps, Inc is a publicly financed 501(c)(3)nonprofit American sanctuary specializing in the care of chimpanzees. The organization was founded by the late Carole C. Noon in 1997. Save the Chimps is accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries and a founding member of the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance. The mission of Save the Chimps is to provide and build support for permanent sanctuary for the lifetime care of chimpanzees rescued from research, entertainment, and the pet trade.  Carole Cooney Noon ( July 14 , 1949 -- May 2 , 2009 ) 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 . Chimpanzees (sometimes called chimps) are one of the two species of the genus "Pan", the other being the bonobo. Together with gorillas, they are the only exclusively African species of great ape that are currently extant. Native to sub-Saharan Africa, both chimpanzees and bonobos are currently found in the Congo jungle. Carole Cooney Noon (July 13, 1949  May 2, 2009) was an American anthropologist and 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.
  Early life.
  Noon was born in Portland, Oregon on July 13, 1949 to William and Dorothy Cooney. She grew up on an island in the South Pacific where her father ran a ship salvage operation. She then moved with her mother and two sisters to Honolulu, Hawaii. After a divorce, Noon, her mother, and two sisters moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where she went to school. Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.3 million km² (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4 % of its total land area. With 1.1 billion people as of 2013, it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states (countries), nine territories and two "de facto" independent states with limited or no recognition.
candidates: anthropologist member pet primatologist research sovereign
answer: anthropologist