These things are flat out demons that will show up at the stupidest and the worst times.
These things are flat out demons that will show up at the stupidest and the worst times. I was on crystal isles and in a weird location near about three other biomes so the spawns were pretty wacky, and one day I had boated across the lake near my base to check out the other side and unfortunately I got ambushed by a pack of hyenadons and when I respawned on my boat bed they just killed me again and I had to swim back across to go get my stuff, which I did with no trouble at all, no mantas in sight, just a cute icthy. The problem now was that I had a pack of hyenas camping on my boat with a few on the shore, so I snuck up on one of the hyenas on the shore to attack it but then I saw the option to pet it, which I did until it tamed which took me by surprise since I'm definitely still a Noob when it comes to Ark. I named him Henry and had him sit there as I lured away the other hyenas before running back to my boat. Unfortunately I couldn't get Henry to climb up on the boat with me so I opted to paddle slowly and just have him follow me back home since when I swam there myself it was safe, so it must still be safe right? WRONG! Everything was going fine and Henry was only a few feet away from the shore as I was parking my boat and suddenly at the top if the screen I saw in hellish red "Your Henry (Lvl 37) was killed by a wild Manta (Lvl 12)" and I mentally screamed. I eventually got a Sacro later on and took her to maul that jerk that killed Henry, but I'm still determined to kill every manta I see now after that.