text:  Those who saw the sloth exhibited last summer in the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens when at large and suspended by its huge claws to the _under_ side of a branch of a tree must have recognised the minute accuracy of Mr Waterton's account in the _Wanderings_ of the habits of this animal so much impugned at the time because diametrically opposed to the statements of zoologists who had either never seen it alive or seen it only when placed on a flat surface a position which it never assumes in its natural state and which its conformation renders one of extreme pain and constraint