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Hey, new to pathfinder and had an animal companion question. I plan on taking a tiger for my companion and in the beastiary they have a racial +4 acrobatics and +4 stealth (+8 in tall grass), so the question is do the animal companion versions get the racial bonus to skills?
They should. An animal companion is a more powerful version of the normal wild animal, I can't see why the animal companion wouldn't have what the base animal has.
Actually... animals don't get their bonuses to skills like this as written. An animal companion's stats are built off of different rules than those intended to be used as monsters.
That said, I don't think it'd hurt much to go ahead an apply the bonuses to skills as presented in the Bestiary if you want.
I would take this a step further and also say that if an animal has a racial modifier to a skill, that that skill should also be included as a class skill for the animal companion. If that type of animal is predisposed to that type of skill then it only make sense that the animal companion would be good at it as well. For example, Survival is not normally a class skill for animal companions but normal (non-companion) dogs get +4 Survival when tracking by scent for a Dog, so I would make Survival a class skill for dogs (and maybe make Climb a non-class skill).