The animal devotion feat allows you to gain the power of a specific animal for one minute per day. Bonus include a +2 sacred/profane strength bonus, a +5-foot sacred/profane bonus to your base land speed, gaining flight, etc.
My question is, can a druid with this feat use these abilities whilst wildshaped? The rules for alternative forms say (emphasis mine):
The creature loses the natural weapons, natural armor, movement modes, and extraordinary special attacks of its original form.
The creature gains the natural weapons, natural armor, movement modes, and
extraordinary special attacks of its new form.The creature retains the special qualities of its original form. It does not gain any special qualities of its new form.
The creature retains the spell-like abilities and supernatural attacks of its old form (except for breath weapons and gaze attacks).
It does not gain the spell-like abilities or supernatural attacks of
its new form.
What I'm not sure of is what part of this, if any, would apply to this feat ability.
Best Answer
First of all, just to be sure, you always can use animal devotion with different animal than the one you are using for wildshape. Because animal devotion would have nothing to do with the original form of your wildshape, no rules could possibly cross-apply.
As far as I understand, even if the animal you select for both wildshape and animal devotion is the same, there is nothing to prevent them being used together. You don't get things from shaping into animal, but Animal Devotion is not about form, so is not affected by form-limiting rules.
For the "can I activate it at all" part, it is not natural weapons, natural armor, movement modes, or extraordinary special attacks of original form, so it is not lost due to these rules. It does not require speech, so that's also not a problem. And there is nothing in wildshape rules against that. I admit that Hawk's Flight on Rhinoceros looks scary, but yes, you can do that.