Ok. Paras are very useful even for the best of players they can show where enemies are and can scare away medium sized creatures (raptors bugs dilos etc.) there awesome.

They’re a pretty good starter tame, they naturally can hold a pretty decent amount of weight and they are good at harvesting berries.

I have 3 lvl 70+
I killed a raptor in under 2 sec and it was level 30

Everyone underestimates these, the tek ones make op metal, oil, electronic, and element dust farms, while the normal ones make good for the hide and mear ones!

Even at high level these can be useful due to how they can alert you with a location of a players, tames, and dinos

I use this guy for everything. He is good for bringing with you for traveling long distances. (The detecting carnivore thing he does)

A solid first dino tame. Not very strong or fast but it can help bare your weight and in the hostile world of ark a friend is what you really need.

Parasaurs are very good first tames. They have a lot of base Weight, so getting one early will allow you to put points in Health, Speed, or Fortitude and put them in Weight later on.

If you name these as locations like west gate 1 or something then set them to player detection mode, they work as a great alarm system.

In my opinion the best starter dinosaur you can get.
Decent movement speed with good stamina, an overall okay berry farmer with good weight and highly mobile. And this dinosaur has got very low saddle requierments and you can also shoot from it‘s back.

I suggest you to tame one.