I saw a dodo didn’t even look at the level and I tamed it then i was like shit I noticed it was level 23 and I looked at health for that level and it was about 60 something on health
Make sure to tame a bunch of dodos and max them out in the levels and upgrade melee and health when leveled up and then you can kill the annoying raptors that killed you and guarded your stuff when you first started.