Just curious, when you wildshape as a druid can you still use your own Feats?
For example, my druid is built for tripping. So he has Combat Expertise, Improved Trip, Greater Trip, Dodge, and Disorienting Maneuver. So his tripping is his Combat Maneuver, but I still want to take advantage of that when I wildshape into an animal. Does my animal form inherit my Feats or am I stuck with the animal feats? And if I choose an animal that can trip, can I use my own Feats, since I'm already proficient in them?
As long as you still meet the requirements and nothing about your new form is troublesome (like... a feat that involved speaking), you can use the feats. Combat maneuvers certainly work, you retain your own mental stats and don't suddenly become dumber. And many dumb monsters get trip, grab, etc... attacks, so it can't be that mentally challenging to do.
or am I stuck with the animal feats?
Just to clarify this point: You don't gain the feats of the form you take; the form only provides what the beast shape spells and the polymorph rules specifically grant.
Thank you for the clarification.
In 3.5 wildshaping was a complete rewrite of your character. In pathfinder its an attempt to do more of a buff you can modify on the fly.
Most of the information about what the spells do is here in the polymorph section of the magic chapter.
You keep your feats.
You adjust your stats.
You get the less of what the form has or what the spell says you can get.
Even in 3E, you kept your feats. You just *also* gained any racial bonus feats of the form you took.