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Sloth is found clinging to motorway crash barrier after it got stuck trying to cross the road
Continue reading and see additional pictures of this encounter and link to collection of pictures of smiling sloths, babies and grownups.
Sloths move only when they absolutely need to, and rarely leave the branches of their favourite trees.
However, they do climb down to ground level once a week to empty its bowels, often choosing the same spot each week.
As the motorway opened recently, it is likely that it lies in what once was a natural path of travel for the sloth.
As sloths only have a maximum ground speed of just over 6ft, it is believed the animal started making its way across the road, and then getting stuck as traffic sped up in the morning.
After Quevedo police posted on Facebook about the sloth, the animal has made hundreds of thousands of fans around the globe.
Fortunately for all its fans, it appears the sloth did not suffer from its little adventure.
The Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador(Ecuador Transit Commission) later added that the sloth had been returned to the rainforest.
'It has been checked by a vet, who determined that it was in optimal conditions for return to its habitat,' he wrote on Facebook.
Source
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3415768/Grinning-sloth-clinging-motorway-crash-barrier-got-stuck-trying-cross-road.html
See LOTS of pictures of smiling sloths here:
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/pictures-of-smiling-sloths.html
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