[RPG] Can a Druid take Improved Natural Attack for use with Wild Shape

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The question arises because someone referenced the wording on the feat's prerequisites, they said the Druid would need a natural attack all the time to qualify:

Improved Natural Attack:
Attacks made by one of this creature’s natural attacks leave vicious wounds.
Prerequisite: Natural weapon, base attack bonus +4.

If the Druid does not have a natural attack in his regular form, does this prohibit taking the feat? I perceived it as similar to taking ranks in the Fly skill–you just have to have access to a form that can do it–but I could be wrong.

Best Answer

From the Paizo SRD on Feat Prerequisites:

A character can't use a feat if he loses a prerequisite, but he does not lose the feat itself. If, at a later time, he regains the lost prerequisite, he immediately regains full use of the feat that prerequisite enables.

It appears that you can take the feat, but can't use it while not having a natural weapon. You regain the benefits when you regain the prerequisites.