Once when I first started playing ark I had been stung by some scorpions, I was running and passed out, I was fuming I was going to loose all my gear and all the metal I had just gathered, I could hear something going on, the scorpions were fighting, but I wasn’t getting hurt, when I awoke, the bodies of ten scorpions lay near by, and that’s when I saw him, a Dino I to this day call my friend, a bloodied level 4 anklyo had put himself before me in my defense, he didn’t even leave, I couldn’t tame him yet I knew he would die if I tried to trank him, so as he just wandered around the area I made a small camp, right before I was going to tame him a carno came out of no where and attacked him, there was no way I could make it to him in time, but then as if sent from god himself a diplodocus strikes me from behind hurling me at the carno, I slaughtered it, and half an hour later I rode home upon Baloo the anklyo, he is my oldest Dino, and has farmed over 1 mil metal for me, I have since retired him after building a massive pen for him, I no longer burden him beneath the crushing weight of stone but laden with mejoberries, he has sired 120ish ankys and lives with the Dino’s I have chosen to guard him (two tickle chickens, reaper and stalker, 10 raptors, a carch named Jack the Ripper, and a giga named uh nvm what the giga is named)

Raise to the sky to share baloo’s tale

And yea I felt horrible about beating the hell out of him to tame him, but like hell was I giving him up