They aren’t as bad as I thought.

I was walking around in the dark when I accidentally pressed a button and a weird signal came out of its head and on the top said ‘ your parasaur detected a enemy.

If you press ZL on Nintendo, a signal travels around the area trying to find a enemy.

When I did it for the first time, it detected a pack of trodons.

The accident saved us from them.

Easily one of the best first tames you can get. Tames in minutes, it's on every map, and doesn't fight back. It's got pretty good weight, stamina, and it will likely be able to go faster than you. I personally use these early game as a beast of labor, carrying me while I harvest stone and wood from its back or have it at my side for when I get encumbered. It's scare ability is phenomenal for dealing with those pesky early predators like raptors that'd normally kill you without a mount. And it's enemy detection system is helpful even late game for finding hidden dinos like thylas or a dormant Phoenix. Or in pvp it can double for helping you find hidden enemy players. All around a good dino you should tame as soon as possible and keep around for utility.

Low on berries? Use a parasaur to get those numbers up again they are great at harvesting berries and even trees they are the best for harvesting berries for begginers (Behind Trikes) and they can easily kill an alpha compy the Dilo sometimes they can even beat an iguanadon with ease but stay away from those rock throwing giant therium rats that roam around (One killed my ptera) just watch out for stronger creatures specially the sarco and the Jellyfishes when on beaches.

All you need to do is go your crafting tab and make a bola after throw it at the Dino and hit it with a wooden club when it’s knocked out click backpack and it will connect to the Dino’s backpack then transfer 5 kinds of berries in the Dino’s backpack then wait hope this helped :)

Well I don’t know how to play ark but I trap low level parasaur and know it out and now I have to a female and a male and I made saddles for both o f them I got the when I was a noob kind of and I was really happy and I have the with my fam of dodos and a thing that u don’t knock out to tame it spawns where my base is and I don’t kill them a lot because I had a thing that had sharp teeth and it was like the size of a brontosaurus and u don’t know that out to you feed it berrys and it was so big I am happy I killed it because it was stuck and it was beside my base for A LONG TIME and I am really happy but my parasaurs are cool I named one copper pelt and one named leaf pelt if you read this thank you but I was think it would not be this long

You can use them as turrets, you can build a taller tower and put a para and some turrets on it and it will tell you if a enemy has entered your base or in your general area. I suggest naming them Sector one or quadrant one second to quadrant two and so on, so you know when it pops up which area of a base has an enemy in it.