No one believes it. . .

Until they see it. And we were lucky enough the other day to see it happen.

As breakfast was wrapping up, a guest pointed excitedly and exclaimed, "a sloth!"

Sure enough, a sloth was up in a tree and making its way down to the ground near the rancho.

Sloths come out of the trees to the ground once every seven days to take care of their bathroom business. They do not do that in the trees. (They also come down to the ground to nurse their youngsters as well.)

They can shed up to 25 to 30 percent of their body weight on their weekly trips to the forest floor.

We're going with an artist's rendering as we were too busy watching the critter come down and go back up to actually have the presence of mind to come back to our house and get the camera.