Roughly three and a half years ago, our neighbor did a major tree trimming. Before that, we regularly saw 3-toed sloths just off our balcony in the cecropia tree. Afterwards, we never saw a sloth again because the sloths couldn’t reach the cecropia tree from the surrounding branches.
In December, during our last trip to Costa Rica, I looked out toward the Pacific Ocean and I spotted something moving in the cecropia. I assumed it was a monkey. Then I realized, oh my god, It was a young male 3-toed sloth. He was chowing down on cecropia leaves (a favorite sloth food) and Todd and I celebrated the return of the sloths!