Yahoo TV

After receiving calls from worried residents in the rural town of Taraza, workers from Colombian public services holding company Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) went to the rescue.

With safety measures in place, thirty-eight-year-old EPM employee Victor Hugo Lopez, who had been working nearby, climbed up on the post and reached out to the sloth, who at first was fearful and kept moving further away from him.

The sloth finally came to its senses when Lopez spoke to it in a soothing voice and grabbed on to a broom held out by Lopez.

In a dramatic 20-minute operation, the fortunate sloth was carefully brought down from the electrical cables and released back into the wild later that day after suffering from no injuries.