Druid Cannot Wild Shape into a Bear?

[squareular]

So for Wild Shape you start off with the forms from pest form, and additional druid feats give you access to forms from other polymorph spells such as humanoid form (thousand faces) and dinosaur form (ferocious shape) and elemental form (elemental shape) and etc, but at no point can I find a druid feat that adds the forms from the animal form spell. I mean, it's on your spell list so you can just cast it on yourself, but, like, you can't wild shape into a bear?

[Brew Bird]

The Wild Shape spell automatically includes animal form when heightened to 2nd level.

[squareular]

Thank you!! I knew I was missing something.

[meadmaster]

What about the heightened versions of Animal Form? Is the spell automatically heightened if my level is high enough?

[Malk_Content]

meadmaster wrote:

What about the heightened versions of Animal Form? Is the spell automatically heightened if my level is high enough?

"WILD SHAPE" wrote:

you gain all the effects of the form you chose from a version of the spell heightened to wild shape’s level

Yup!

[Deadmanwalking]

meadmaster wrote:

What about the heightened versions of Animal Form? Is the spell automatically heightened if my level is high enough?

It is, yes. As a Focus Spell it is always heightened to the highest level spell you can cast.