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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies

What are tips for mesopithecus? Tips and strategies for mesopithecus in ARK: Survival Ascended & Evolved.
Some of them spawn in the redwood forest
Tame a 135+ and you have a great companion. He/She can slow down attackers when on your shoulder by throwing poop at them (even alphas and brontos), collect berries when on wander and makes a surprisingly good guard dog in bases. I get mine to 1k health then pump melee. I usually get 400% minimum, that's 40 damage on a small, fast, pooping flinging creature. It'll rek wanna be intruders in your base, especially I'd you put a good helmet on it for armour.
if they hit an oncoming predator with a piece of poop, the predator will lose a lot of movement speed, its health will start getting drained, and its torpor will rise. you can use this to run away from a predator, defeat it, or just beat something up with it for your amusement.
Their ability to throw poop is actually really good for taming. I’ve knocked out high lvl trikes and carnos by just charging with my pachy and then running away to set up another charge. The monkey makes it so whatever you’re trying to tame can barely even move at you. It even completely eliminates a trike’s ability to charge at you. These are definitely good tames. Just make sure your monkey doesn’t hit the tame an extra time when it’s already knocked out, it’ll sabotage the taming effectiveness.
Took a video involving my Mesopithecus/Monkey while my Aligator/Sarco fought a Carbonemys/Turtle. I reversed it, and this is what I found that the lines turn into during a reversed video (this is an incomplete list, if I copy the comment I will let it be known at the top of the copied comment)
Scared: HOO-HOO! HOW!?
Reversed poop-throw: (slightly high pitched) HOW!?
This list will be updated as I do more reversed videos. Test it for yourself using screen recorder and any apps you may have that can reverse videos. (Screen recorder can be enabled in the Settings app)
An easy way to tame one is find it build a cage somewhere else get an argy or pterdon and gave him then wait for it to calm down and star feeding happy tameing😄134
They can throw their poop and slow enemies, do little damage and do torpor
Monkeys are cute and you can give them a hat! Crawl so they don’t see you (unless you get too close) and always feed them mejoberrys they tame it 10% at a time.
It is quite rare (In my case) wonder around,
and it'll be found. (Had to)
These guys are easy to hear but hard to see. When they run they are impossible to find. But having a monkey on your should is even more satisfying then destroying all those leeches in the swamp
You do not knock them out to tame them just simply crouch behind them and feed them berries till they are tamed if u run to them they will run away
Was hearing loud monkey “oooahhhahhh” noises while building my base. Thought I was going insane and asked my household if they were making monkey noises. Eventually found this little guy roaming around. They poop like crazy when they’re scared. Anywho, if you’re on a boosted server just feed them berries and they should be tamed easily without needing all that extra stuff. Put them on wander and they’ll collect a crap ton of berries and seeds for you.