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Mystique can turn into animals now? Or just something similar size, which extends to animals?
She can turn into animals her own size and smaller than her cause she has turned into a cat several times in the past, amongst other things. The swarm of bats she can't do normally, its only when she gains a power boost to her mutation bumping it up a notch... i.e. via Apocalypse making her a horseman or Fabian Cortez or someone else empowering her. I assume she can turn into an animal larger than her as well tho because she turns into people larger than her (Sabertooth, Juggernaut, etc) so size doesn't appear to be a limitation to her power... but I don't know what he upper limit or lower limit is for size. She also changes into people smaller than her by the way, like teenagers. She can also turn into feral people (Sabertooth, Wolfsbane, etc) so claws and fur is well within her ability range. The only reason she doesn't use animal forms more is poor writing.
Her shapeshifting abilities are more advanced than alot of other shifters cause she can do things like move organs around and create pockets and compartments inside her own body to carry things. So for example if she is carrying a gun, she could turn into a person or animal with no gun (but the gun is inside her, then transform back into herself holding the gun.
Her mutation is very high level, unlike Morph who can't hold a shape for extended periods and can't fully alter skintone anymore or do small details.
When her mutation is enhanced she can even mimic smell so wolverine cant sniff her out. Sabertooth was shown to be able to identify her scent better than wolverine tho because they dated and work together for years so her lingering scent is familiar to him even when she is in another form.
Here she is turning into a dog, for example:
(Notice the cold breath from her then the dog)