They didn't spawn near me, though, and I didn't have any fliers on me to go hunting for one. So I was baffled when a 140 otter turned up and was wandering around. Of course, I immediately wanted to tame it, so I began hunting down fish with my spears and died a handful of times, and eventually I get the guy to around 95% or so. I go and kill my last fish, and it's gone. It swam off into the lake, never to be seen again.

Or so I thought, because after multiple more hours of playtime my parasaur senses an enemy nearby. Now, being a pretty inexperienced player I lived in a very safe area where nothing dangerous ever spawned, and the most that would spawn were ichthyornis. So I check it out.

Lo and behold, the 140 otter returned, still waiting for its final fish. So I drop it in a small little pen, worried it might run off again, and go and kill a salmon for it. After struggling to feed it the fish, I had finally tamed it. After waiting so, so long to find an otter, the otter had come to me.

And then while I was trying to grab something I accidentally threw the otter into a lake where it was killed by piranhas in a matter of moments.

Needless to say, I was a little disappointed in myself for doing that. And now I need to find a new otter.

Built myself a canoe and went on a journey essentially across the map. Along the way, I tamed a few vultures. Only kept one, who I named Squash. At some point a sarco catches up to me and starts attacking me, so in a panic I row up to a tiny landmass and exit the canoe. I am promptly munched by the croc. I didn't bother to go get my stuff since the sarco would probably still be there. As one does, I mourned the loss of my little rat bird Squash. Much later, I tame up a ptera. Fly over to where I died. Not only is the canoe intact, but Squash is alive. Check his inventory and he has sarco skin. Never owned a vulture before this, so I was shocked. I take Squash with me everywhere now and I hope he never dies.

Long live Squash.