Abstract: A retrieval device for retrieving creatures comprises an elongate member having first and second ends in fluid communication via a conduit defined through the elongate member and a capturing element at the first end of the elongate member. The capturing element defines an interior volume, and has an entrance aperture opening into the interior volume and an exit aperture by which the interior volume is in fluid communication with the first end of the elongate member. The capturing element is configured so that when a suitably sized creature is within the interior volume and the retrieval device is oriented with the first end of the elongate member above the second end with the entrance aperture facing generally upward, the capturing element guides the creature under gravity from the interior volume through the exit aperture into the first end of the elongate member and along the conduit to the second end.