--- title: Lost Sloth Clings to Road Partition in Ecuador description: Sloth clings to road partition and has to be rescued by Ecuador Transit Commission. canonical: https://time.com/4192424/sloth-road-ecuador/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-25T16:34:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:11.255Z og:title: Sloth Gives Up on Crossing Highway and Clings to Pole Instead og:description: Why did the sloth cross the road? og:url: https://time.com/4192424/sloth-road-ecuador/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sloth Gives Up on Crossing Highway and Clings to Pole Instead twitter:description: Why did the sloth cross the road? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sloth Gives Up on Crossing Highway and Clings to Pole Instead  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 25, 2016 4:34 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 25, 2016 4:34 PM UTC Why did the sloth cross the road? Well, we don’t know, but the Transit Commission of Ecuador (CTE) shared photos on Facebook of a sloth clinging to a road partition after “struggling to cross,” a spokesperson [told BuzzFeed News](http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/cute-sloth-omg#.poQgrE6xY). A veterinarian was called in, and once the animal was deemed to be in good condition, it was taken back to its habitat. The agency’s photo album has been shared more than 12,000 times and has racked up more than 42,000 “likes” since it was published on Jan. 22. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4192424/sloth-road-ecuador/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4192424/sloth-road-ecuador/"},"headline":"Sloth Gives Up on Crossing Highway and Clings to Pole Instead","datePublished":"2016-01-25T16:34:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:11.255Z","description":"Talk about a slow news day","url":"https://time.com/4192424/sloth-road-ecuador/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4192424/sloth-road-ecuador/","name":"Sloth Gives Up on Crossing Highway and Clings to Pole Instead"}}]}] ```