Mother and baby sloth in Costa Rican rainforest

A mother sloth and its baby cling to a tree branch in the Costa Rican rainforest.
A mother sloth and its baby cling to a tree branch in the Costa Rican rainforest.

A mother sloth and her young cling to a tree branch in a Costa Rican rainforest. The arboreal mammals spend most of their lives in trees, where they feed and rest among the canopy.

Photo taken in February 2019.

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