Among the fauna of the country are common and black jaguars, tapirs, manatees, peccaries, boas, cougars or pumas, and alligators.
Also the quetzal, the imperial bird of the great Indian Quiche race, and the Trogan resplendens.

Poinciana regia and P.pulcherrima are common garden shrubs or trees, but the finest Poinciana I ever saw was in Honolulu.

Vampire bats are more common in Nicaragua, but also exist in Guatemala.

They have very sharp incisors and bite cattle and horses on the back or withers, men on the toes if exposed, and roosters on the comb.

They live in caves, and not as the large fruit bats of India, which repose head downwards, hanging from trees in great colonies.
Vampires live on blood, having no teeth suitable for mastication.
It is a strange fact that Germans, who now have the great bulk of the trade throughout Central America, are very unpopular.