The Nonhuman Rights Project is filing suits on behalf of four captive chimpanzees . The owners of the captive chimpanzees have not commented on the lawsuits . The lawsuits seek the ' ' ` ` right to reproductive liberty '' and their placement in a sanctuary . • Hercules and Leo , two young males , are owned by New Iberia Research Center and used in a locomotion research experiment in the Anatomy Department at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook . The activist group says it plans to file more suits on behalf of elephants , birds and whales .
The Nonhuman Rights Project is filing suits on behalf of four captive chimpanzees . The owners of the captive chimpanzees have not commented on the lawsuits . The lawsuits seek the ' ' ` ` right to reproductive liberty '' and their placement in a sanctuary . The activist group says it plans to file more suits on behalf of elephants , birds and whales .