Tamed 2 ( lvl 125 and lvl 90 ) did some upgrading mostly to health and melee. Turned my back to cook some meat. Hear scary music, see lvl 130 Rex's corps just flying over my head.

Start taming before u sleep. In the morning it will be hungry and feed faster. Don’t save or it’s hunger resets!

Do not knock out. Crouch and feed, continue to do this using mejoberries. Specifically mejoberries and I also got this tip by a dude here. Mine got killed even I didn’t fully tame and fought a alpha

THEY ARE FOUND IN RED WOOD,! And GHILLE

I encountered one of these guys a while back. I went up to it (with berries in last slot) and gave it to him. However, if you're too close for too long, they'll attack.
Basically, feed berries and run away to a nearby area where you can keep an eye on it.

No gille armor all you need to do is crouch behind it and shove berries up its butt...I'm not kidding

It literally only took me an hour to tame a level 145 with only 50 mejoberries.

1. Gather berries and put the berries in your last slot
2. Kneel down and walk up to one of them and feed it the berries
3. Now you just follow it around while kneeling down and feeding it berries whenever it's hungry
4. Congratulations you tamed one.


Since they're commonly found in the red wood forest, I recommend only taming one if you're close to water as if you get attacked by something you can jump into the water to get away. Then when you think it's safe just go find your monkey and go back to following/feeding it.

Use titanboa kibble.









It loves that.

A random tip for mobile players:
Due to a nerf in mobile where flyers get a speed debuff from taking damage (which can get painfully annoying especially in single player), I recommend using a quetzal to carry the gigantopithecus to a safe spot (e.g near an area in your base that you feel is safe for your potential ape tame and definitely not anywhere near your tames)