On the island I found one at 60 80

this is easily the best shoulder pet in the entire game like after a couple levels health and melee go up so much so he can help and protect you at least a little he helps regulate your body temperature so you don't get hot or cold and this is just adorable don't forget the fact that he can hold artifacts

These otters live near streams and rivers

Spawn in the two ponds with beavers and the river that connects them, if none are there kill everything in the area leave and come back.

Otters can protect you from cold climates drastically, they eat up all your depression and aren't hard to tame at all! Just catch some Sabertooth Salmon or Piranha and bring the corpse to the otter and feed it. There you have your very own cute little otter. But remember to Bola it so it doesn't run away first. About 2 just in case. Kill one and I'll find you on multiplayer...

Im sorry I've destroyed 3 of these. Iwas on my Baryonyx and I went to the swamp looking for the immune cave and a bunch of paranas attacked me so I did the spin move and in the chat it said like 15 paranas died but an otter also died so after I got the artifact I went home and made a grave. This happen 3 times different swamps.

You can incubate eggs with an otter. Just plop the egg on it

I accidentally killed an otter when I was roaming the swamp/redwoods area with a spino tranple. I feel really bad

I am pretty sure they raise your temperature when you have them around you’re neck so you don’t freeze to death!

JM here, anyway just wanna clarify that it CAN'T carry artifacts(plural)

on mobile, happy to help,✌️

They can carry multiple artifacts in their inventory including multiple of the same one

In ark mobile, u can tame it with raw fish meat and raw prime fish meat.

Raw Prime fish meat is better

Want an otter to keep you warm in the mountains? Want an otter to hatch dinosaur eggs for you? This is how you get one! (and keep her alive).

Assuming you are on the island, Otters are mostly found around the redwoods And the main thing is along the black sands. However, they can be found in almost every river in the game.

The otter eats whole fish carcasses, not raw fish meat. You have to approach her while holding a fish corpse and press "Feed".

An extremely important points

★ After you have finished the training put it in the inventory of the otter raw fish. Many times the otter becomes tame when there is no food on it and from there the road to starvation is very short. (R.I.P miss Otter Hightower)

★Otters can run very far, so confine them before training begins. They can be picked up with any flying animal the size of a pterodon or larger.

Successfully!

A rex killed mines also a spino ganged up with the rex to kill him along with some raptors my heart was broken then I kill them with across mutated army of menaces I now kill all of those pieces of sh"t because they killed wilson

If you kill him you are a monster.

this bad boy keeps you from cold and heat

Can gather silica amd black pearls simultaneously. Sent mine to attach a fish, he got 1 silica pearl, 1 black pearl, and 4 fish meat.

They can hold up to 5 artifacts

ATTENTION MOBILE PLAYERS!!! on mobile you tame this cutie with fish MEAT. not fish CORPSES! ok?

I have tamed 6 of them so far, all found along the Redwoods beach and in the river. They are very small and look like small bearers underwater but are easy to spot on the beach. I've only ever encountered one at a time, and never in the same place. They are fairly easy to tame, just pike fish (I recommend using a high level pike- work smarter, not harder) and walk up to the otter with the fish. It will prompt you to feed the fish to the otter, he will make an animation, and the taming bar should show up at the bottom. Don't worry about losing taming effectiveness as you go around gathering more fish, I don't think I've noticed a problem yet. On an Official PVE server