This is the adorable moment a sloth waves back to a good samaritan who helped him into the forest after crossing a road.

The footage, captured in January in the province of Limon in Costa Rica, shows a group of people watching the sloth slowly crossing a road.

Once on the roadside, the sloth tries to enter the forest by climbing up a bank. However, the bank is too high.

After seeing the animal struggling, a man decides to give it a helping hand. He grabs the sloth and puts him on top of the back so the animal can continue on into the forest.

The man then says goodbye to the sloth by waving his hand. Amazingly, the sloth waves back.

Writes the filmer: "We are a tourism operator in Costa Rica. On one of our tours we found a crowd in the middle of the road. We stopped and realized that it was a sloth crossing the street. I started recording, which is usual in this kind of job, and everybody was enjoying the show, but at the end, something totally different happens, just like you see in the video: the sloth waves goodbye to us! It was just outstanding."

We are a tourism operator in Costa Rica, in one of our tours we found a crowd in the middle of the road, we stopped and realized that it was a sloth crossing the street, I started recording which is usual in this kind of job, and everybody was enjoying the show, but at the end something totally different happens, just like you see in the video, the sloth waves goodbye to us, it was just outstanding.