PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an animal trap capable of surely capturing animals without allowing them to escape.SOLUTION: An animal trap includes a swing plate 4 swung between an open state in which an entrance 3 of a trap chamber 1 is open and a closed state in which the entrance 3 is closed a holding member 5 for holding the swing plate 4 in the open state and for causing the swing plate to start swinging after the release of the holding and a maintaining plate 6 locked to the holding member 5 to maintain the holding member 5 in such a way as to hold the swing plate 4 in the open state and releasing the locking by the weight of an animal thereon entering from the entrance 3 to release the holding of the holding member 5, whereby an animal can be surely captured.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】動物を逃がすことなく確実に捕獲できる動物捕獲器を提供する。【解決手段】捕獲室1の入口3を開放する開放状態と入口3を閉鎖する閉鎖状態との間で揺動する揺動板4と、上記揺動板4を開放状態で保持するとともに、保持の解除により揺動を開始させる保持部材5と、上記保持部材5に係止して揺動板4を開放状態に保持するよう保持部材5を維持するとともに、上記入口3から侵入した動物が載った重みによって上記係止を解除して保持部材5の保持を解除する維持板6とを備えたことにより、動物を確実に捕獲することができる。【選択図】図1
