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

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

Otters are a great company for you if you love dinos the you can put on your shoulder

======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)

Use an Itchy to kill and give you a golden sabertooth salmon. Dramatically decreases the time to tame this creature. Good luck!

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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

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

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

In ark ultimate edition mobile - if u want tame otter then follow methods.

1st kill a fish then collect meat and place on last hotbar.

2nd kill a fish and drag , then go near otter and when u tap , otter feed your fish meat which u place on last hotbar.

Hope it will help u

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.

Easily tameable by putting in Argys mouth then feed it fish

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

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.

If you want to find one on ark mobile here’s my guide

His is the list of stuff you need

Pteradon

A box somewhere for storage

Here’s what you do you start by placing the otter box then you find an otter with is the hardest part then use your pteradon to pick up the otter and bring it to the box then all you have to do is drag fish in and voila

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

To tame you need to drag a fish over to them.

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.

On mobile it’s a passive tame with any fish meat

Once I found an otter on the beach but it was eaten by a mega piranha

On mobile u can kill any fish harvest it’s meet and passive tame the otter.on other u have to kill a saber tooth or piranha and drag it’s body to the otter to make it eat it and tame it that way.but yeah