Crossing a busy road isn't easy even if you can move quickly, so when this adorable little sloth tried to cross a busy highway the inevitable happened, he got stuck. The sloth was spotted on a highway in Quevedo, central Ecuador after a failed attempt to cross the road.

Spotted by passers the local police were called to deal with the sloth who was found clinging on to the central reservation. Police carried out their adorable sloth rescue mission and photographed the entire thing. The question remains though, why did the sloth cross the road?

This tiny sloth tried to cross the road but ran out of energy...