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The mystery photo that you just saw is a sloth.

It is common to see a sloth hanging upside down from tree branches. They eat, sleep, mate, and give birth upside-down in the trees.
Sloths are herbivores, meaning that all they eat is plant materials. Their diets consist of leaves (especially the new green ones) and fruit.

Everything sloths do is slow. They chew slowly, blink slowly, mate slowly, and definitely move from branch to branch slowly. One time a sloth was observed in an emergency trying to get to its baby that was being attacked by a predator. The running sloth was reported at moving 14 feet in one minute. Now that is slow!