The anteater was taken to a wildlife center, where it quickly recovered. The sloth was released into a nearby reserve, but not before making one final visit to the garden a week later.
The family watched as it sat near the same bush for an hour… then slowly climbed the nearest tree and disappeared.
No one knows how they found each other. But in the end, it didn’t matter. The sloth hadn’t been lost, it had come to save a life.