Sloth in the middle of a park!

So I was walking around the city landmarks in old town Cartagena, Colombia today with some new friends I met at the hostel I am currently staying at. We decided to walk through a park on our way back so that we could watch Argentina play against Croatia - little did we know how the game would turn out...

However, as we did begin to walk through I noticed that the tree had some claws sticking out, which is weird and most probably part of the tree. THEN BOOM! A god-damn sloth sitting at the base of a tree in the middle of a busy park in the middle of old town Cartagena... WHAT..?!?! I was somewhat taken back to say the least and decided to attempt to take a few photos. However, I only had my wide angle lens on me and not my telephoto lens, which meant this is the best up close shot I could manage. I wanted to get closer and put the camera a lot closer to this slow moving mammal BUT I also did not want to add any stress to this beautiful guy, as he went about his day.