I don't know about ALL vampires but the vampire Count Vlad Dracula specifically can turn into a bat, and a wolf, and (this isn't an animal but whatever) a mist. Actually I watched this one movie, Dracula, and I MUST say that this is what it had to be simply because its unmistakeably, I don't quite understand what the hell exactly the filmmakers were trying to portray here but the creature the vampire turned into too looked a lot like a werewolf. In the movie Van Helsing... Dracula turns into a demonic gargoyle typle monster. The legends, tales and folklore speak about vampire-bats as the most common shape shifting for a vampire. Changing into another creatures is rarely mentioned but can be found occasionally, such as a plague of rats, a half man half bat, a white stag, are among a few to be mentioned.
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==NONE THEY ARENT WERE-CREATURES""== Vampires are known to change to bats and small creatures!?! it is quite fasinating the way they are thought to change into vampire bats. Count Dracula can turn into a wolf as well as a bat. The ability to change shape is not a given power for vampires. Count Dracula was able to do this because in addition to being a vampire he was also a powerful sorcerer. The vast majority of vampires do not do this.
they only drink blood that's it
There is a whole range of feeding habits depending on the type of vampire.
Psychic vampires have no need to eat at all. In fact in at least one extreme case ('The Shunned House' by Edgar Allan Poe.) don't even need to breath.
At the other extreme is the Dhampir which eats as a normal person does, and doesn't even have a need to steal life-force.
In folklore, vampires are often associated with transforming into bats, wolves, or mist.