A group of locals in Cahuita, Costa Rica, managed to record the moment a three-toed sloth climbed down a tree to relieve itself.

Footage from February 2 shows the animal slowly making its way down the tree to go to the toilet, a trip they only make once a week.

The filmer told Newsflare: "It was so exciting to witness this sloth coming down. We made sure to stay far back to give the sloth space."

My 7-year-old daughter Tzivia (pictured at beginning of video) and I were lucky enough to witness this wild three-toed sloth climbing down this tree to defecate, which they only do once a week. This is the very end of the slow climb. Sloths are usually almost motionless, hanging upside down high in trees, slowly eating leaves. It was so exciting to witness this sloth coming down. We made sure to stay far back to give the sloth space. I have another video uploaded showing what the sloth did next: walked across the grass to another tree. This was at Playa Negra in Cahuita, Costa Rica.

Sloths only come down from their trees once a week, for their weekly poop. My daughter and I were lucky enough to witness this 3-toed sloth in Cahuita, Costa Rica, slowly climbing down a tree. Once the sloth got to the bottom of the tree and pooped, they sped up, as seen in this video, walking on all fours toward a different tree. I made sure to stay far back to give the sloth space. This happened at Playa Negra in Cahuita, Costa Rica. I have some other videos of the sloth from that same day, so please check them out.

Wow! You can see in my other videos that this three-toed sloth at Playa Negra in Cahuita, Costa Rica, had just come down from another tree and climbed up into this first palm tree. Well I assumed the sloth would settle in and get slothful again, barely moving at all. Instead, this brave sloth reached behind to transfer to another palm tree, patiently trying and trying until finally the sloth had a good enough grip on the new tree to let go of the first one. Wow! My 7-year-old daughter Tzivia and I witnessed it all, but, unlike the people you see in the video, we kept our distance to try to help the sloth feel safe and comfortable. The word for sloth in Spanish is perezoso, which is also the word for lazy. It is very rare to see a sloth so active.