Shopkeeper surprised to find a sloth waiting outside his store

An errant sloth surprised a shopkeeper in the town of Pucallpa, Peru.





The store owner, who found the animal as he arrived to open, called the Peru Institute of Natural Resources.





They sent someone to pick the animal up and take it back to a nearby wildlife park, where it had wandered away from.


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The sloth is an endangered animal, so wildlife officials say this was an important find, and it is necessary to protect the animal.