Otters can get pearls from fish and a lot of people know that but they can also hold more than one artifact a unique ability for a dino that it can only do and the player cant hit up so more people see this tip

If ur having the problem where they starve and self delete quick, try raw fish meat, for some reason they don’t like normal meat.

These are awesome shoulder pets, as mentioned, they keep you warm and the weight of anything in its inventory is halved but they also make great bodyguards, I put a little into weight and health the rest into melee, not only will it increase it's insulation buff but if set to attack target, will bite anything that is aggressive and gets too close, Ollie has saved my ass a few times now.

Also, to tame one I would suggest using a flying mount to pick it up and drop it in a 1x1 with a 1 door for access and bring an Ichthyornis for collecting the fish, set the ichthy to agressive and follow, stand next to the door and wait for the fish to be delivered to feed the otter.

If you want to keep it alive as long as possible, equip it with a ghillie mask as it will get the camouflage buff as well, this will help it stay hidden if accidentally dropped.

I just realised that on mobile you actually feed it raw fish meat.

Otter babies are very easy to raise, as they hold and entire 25 pounds of fish meat when first born. Not sure if this is an oversight, but just fill it with meat once, then refill a few more times before it hits juvenile. Can be hard to claim when first born because they tend to bounce all over the place. Overall very fun and easy to raise.

I personally use an itchyornis to get the fish and upgrade it so the process of taking an otter is quicker.

Guys just don't waste your time trying to tame it on the mobile version of ark Because they don't carry any artifacts on mobile i learned that the hard way..

Stay smart Mosolila

After taming these guys, put one around your neck they’ll keep you warm so you don’t have to make warm armour for the colder places in ARK

U can track them like any other dino u r taming so u don’t loose them whilst u are mid tame

The easiest way to tame an otter is to first tame a kaprosuchus and then pick up the otter and hold it there then tame it that way

You can grab otters with argentavis beak and even land/dismount of your argentavis and it will keep the otter on its beak, then simply fish (preferency with your ichthyornis) and feed them.

I literally just tamed an otter, swam across a river to my base and when I looked into the otters inventory she had one pearl and one black pearl!

The Argy has a 3rd ability that let's you pick up very small animals with its beak. Grab an otter out of the water using this and the Argy will hold it still in a safe spot on land while you go get a fish. You can feed the otter to tame while the Argy is holding it.

Keep it away from piranha and salmon. Put a strong helmet to keep it safer. Also, it takes a lot more salmon than it says on dododex. Lvl 150 took about 20 salmon

Get a snow owl and use its night vision to help find the otter it helps wonders!!

======for ark:ultimate edition users======

In this version, you must consider 2 things:

Fish corpse and (prime) fish meat

(ptera,argy for grab)

Grab fish(don't know the correlation of the fish size and taming effectiveness but) and feed otter fish meat

Be prepare at least 10 fish meat for effectiveness decrease

(Wrote this because I failed to tame high lv otter before)

Like Kairuku and Dimetrodons, Otters can provide insulation based on their damage status. They are, however, easier to tame and can be carried on shoulder opposed to Dimetrodons, with a smaller hitbox than both the other two while retaining a good insulation capacity, so it's possibly to easily gather as many as 12 around a single egg.

On the con side, their insulation AoE is quite small, so hatching multiple eggs might require a ton of them, wasting creature slots. They have a very low Food stat as well, moreover they are mammals and thus cannot have their genetics stored in the form of eggs inside fridges, so stay ready to feed them fish every 4-5 days.

Otters also act like structure storage units, so one can use them to carry as many Artifacts as it wants.

Level up Melee Damage for portable ACs and living scarfs, Weight for Artifact backpacks and Food as a security measure on breeding stock.

They are really hard to find look in small ponds with fish

I love how on mobile you harvest the fish meat and passive tame it instead of dragging corpses to it

Idk if this is a bug or what but it seems that otters tame meter does not decrease.

I was taking an otter one time on the island pve official and forgot where it went and lost sight it.

Few days later found it in around the same area with the same progress as when I had left it.

I made quick work of taming it on the 2nd encounter.