Vampires are the only mammals that feed exclusively on blood.
vampire diet
Vampires are believed to feed primarily on blood. This can be achieved through a bite in which they sink their long fangs into the victim’s neck, or through a pointed tongue or armed with a stinger like the vampires of Bulgaria and Poland.
They have the ability to feed in their animal form. According to the Romanian civilization, vampires have the ability to transform into cats, dogs or horses. However, folklore assigns them the form of bats, perhaps thanks to trials with vampire bats, which bite mammals to feed on their blood, often transmitting fatal health abnormalities such as rage.
What do vampires eat?
The only thing vampires need to survive is blood. They have the option of eating normal food, however, a very small portion can be a kind of poison for them, and little by little they leave getting weaker. They don’t die, but if they eat enough they can be unconscious for quite some time. Little by little, the food they consumed is disintegrating in their bodies, it seems to be some kind of superhuman process.
According to several studies, vampires have a kind of virus in their cells, they bombard their food and from there it turns into nothing. It’s a development where viruses continue to reproduce to shield the vampire from anything but blood. Supposedly, this is the reason why vampires only suck some blood from a human instead of eating it, as they don’t accept food, but they do accept blood.
Vampire hunting is a research topic
Only three of the nearly 1,400 known bat species are vampires. But did you know that even these species are prey to bloodsuckers? Many species of bats must contend with apterous blood-sucking flies, which can resemble the monsters from “Alien”, the ones that stick to your face. However, vampire bats have far more hardships than most species, as what vampires eat requires enormous commitment and hunting duty to survive.
“Vampires have much more parasites than the average bat,” says Gerald Carter, a bat biologist and also a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Tropical Research in Panama. Researchers in one study trapped hundreds of specimens of 53 bat species to assess parasite prevalence and found that 2 vampire bat species had some much higher loads of wingless flies. One particularly unlucky common vampire found himself covered in 63 blood-sucking flies. And these creatures can be inexorable.