Three New York courts have rejected one group's legal effort to grant captive chimpanzees in that state the same rights as a "legal person."

The Nonhuman Rights Project filed three separate suits on behalf of four chimpanzees in New York state last week in a bid to secure for Tommy, Kiko, Hercules and Leo -- all male chimps held in various parts of the state -- the "right to bodily liberty."

The lawsuits asked that the four chimpanzees be moved to a sanctuary "where they can live out their days with others of their kind in an environment as close to the wild as is possible in North America," the group said.

The group says it will appeal the courts' decisions.

"These outcomes allow the NhRP to proceed to the appellate courts," NhRP spokeswoman Stacey Doss told CNN.

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NhRP founder and President Steven Wise said before the suits were filed that he would "be asking judges to recognize, for the first time, that these cognitively complex, autonomous beings have the basic legal right to not be imprisoned."

Tommy's owner, Pat Levery, dismissed the notion that he confines the 26-year-old chimp to a prison. Tommy lives in a cage on a trailer lot in Gloversville, New York.

"Totally ridiculous" he said of the lawsuit, which he has not read.

"I'd be happy to show you Tommy's home, to show you how well he is cared for," Levery said.

When reached by CNN Monday, he did not know the suit had been rejected.

1. What state was the case in?
2. What were they trying to do?
3. How many monkeys?
4. What organization did this?
5. What did they do?
6. Why did they do this?
7. What are the monkeys' names?
8. What happened in court?
9. Who brought the case about?
10. Who was that?
11. What did he do?
12. Who were the other people involved?
13. What was her role?
14. What did she say?
15. What happened to the monkeys?
16. What did the owners say after?
17. Where is his house?
18. Where does the monkey stay?
19. How old is it?
20. Who is it's caretaker?
21. Was the caretaker upset?

Numbered answers:
1. New York
2. grant captive chimpanzees the same rights as a legal person
3. four
4. The Nonhuman Rights Project
5. filed three suits on behalf
6. so the four chimpanzees can be moved to a sanctuary
7. Tommy, Kiko, Hercules and Leo
8. they suits were rejected
9. the NhRP founder and President
10. Steven Wise
11. would be asking judges to recognize that the chimps have the legal right to not be imprisoned.
12. NhRP spokeswoman Stacey Doss
13. spokeswoman
14. that the outcomes allow the NhRP to proceed to the appellate courts
15. unknown
16. that he'd be happy to show Tommy's home
17. in Gloversville, New York.
18. in a cage on a trailer lot
19. 26 years old
20. Pat Levery
21. yes