During her early years, her father, William Cooney, moved the entire family to an island in the South Pacific, for a business venture, where she spent a significant amount of her childhood.
Years later, when her parents divorced, her mother, Dorothy, moved Carole and her sisters to Honolulu, Hawaii, and later Cleveland, Ohio.
She conducted much of her field research at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia, where chimpanzees were orphaned by the bushmeat trade in Africa.
Noon’s bid for the chimpanzees was rejected, and they were later sent to the Coulston Foundation, that was known for violating the Animal Welfare Act.
Noon and Save the Chimps bought their lab in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and rescued 266 chimpanzees and 61 monkeys.