Coast Guard officials in Quepos, Puntarenas near Manuel Antonio National Park on Costa Rica’s central Pacific coast found a surprise visitor on their gate when they arrived for work yesterday morning: a three-toed sloth who appeared to be pregnant, reported the agency.

Sloths are clumsy and slow, and therefore very vulnerable, on the ground. Their habitat is the canopies of small- and medium-height trees where they have access to young tree shoots and leaves that make up the bulk of their diet, said Coast Guard officials, who all have basic wildlife training.

The animal had striking whitish fur, and once officials deemed she was in good health, they transported her to a nearby forested area, where she proceeded to climb up a tree and looked to be smiling at her rescuer.

Coast Guard officials concluded from the animal’s swollen abdomen that she was a pregnant sloth who will probably give birth in a few days, said the agency.

Officials added the sloths also occasionally eat small insects, and small reptiles and birds; and while they are slow on the ground they are agile swimmers.

Tending to this cute, furry visitor must have been a welcome diversion from the drug patrols the area’s Coast Guard are usually busy with.