PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an effective animal capturing device that can further reliably capture a wild animal, such as a deer and a wild boar.SOLUTION: An animal capturing device releases support of a capturing net that is supported at an upper side of a detection region in response to intrusion of an animal into a prescribed detection region and causes a net falling member connected to a peripheral edge part of the capturing net to fall while pulling the peripheral edge part downward so that the capturing net covers the animal from an upper side.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1