No saddle needed.

They can sniiff out hidden animal and also can sniiff out explorer nots and artifact

Like if it helps

Vicious and lightning fast, the Dire Wolf is a great all-around mount for adventuring and attacking. I highly recommended to bring packs of Dire Wolves for any hostile situation. Whether it be kill Alphas, or raid bases, it's size, agility, and damage make for a deadly beast.

How to tame as low lvl in ark (mobile, or not)

Get 2-5 fria curry, meat or prime and a ptera

Have health thingies and 4 foundations, 14 doorframes and 2 ramps, wood at least

Drink fria curry everytime you loose the buff and recover when needed

Find wolf

Build 4x4 trap and 2 doorframe height except from where the ramps are (they jump)

Get the pack in (with ptera for easier) and kill the ones you dont want

MOBILE BUG bed bug: sleep and whatever wolf you hit with tranq first will have its hunger dropped down to 0, meaning that it will tame instantly, or just use soothing balms.

Extra step:

Give them a stack of meat and get back to your house with ptera and request him

Tip:

This guys aggro from a lot far away (like 2 rexes in a line) so get the aggro, get them out, build trap, aggro and get them in.

For cheap but bad method:

High ground, bola, not more to explain

(Apology for bad english if there is)

You can put a cloth hat on them and they can be pirate dogs

These guys farm hide like a fuc**ng chainsaw, in less than like 5 minutes I got 500 hide… WITH A LVL 15

Easily one of the best combat mounts in the game. It's cheap to tame and pretty powerful, and there's no level requirement for a saddle. Make sure you tame more than one though, so you can get the mate boost

I’m still wondering how they are #1 for collecting angler gel when they aren’t aquatic animals... How are they supposed to get to the bottom of the ocean

My pack of two wolves can take on an Alpha Raptor and live