If you have a Gryffon or any other flying mount that you can shoot from while riding, just stay close to it and pelt it with tranq darts/shocking tranq darts. They’re not very fast so they can’t escape a decently fast tame with good stamina.

One word for KOing this thing: Griffin. Super useful creature, the only flier you can use weapons whilst riding. Grab a crossbow and loads of tranqs, find a suitable quetzal, and go crazy! Just watch your stamina though!

Believe it or not a Quetzal can pick up any creature that you can fit on its back. We built a platform on its back and managed to fly a Giganotosaraus back to our camp

This doesn’t have to be complicated just follow it on a desmodus whole shooting it with tranq arrows. It’s slow so you won’t need to go too fast and make sure you have about 30-35 narcotics on you to keep it uncontious and do not knock it out over water

Here's how to really knockout these guys in 4 words.

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If u wana tame it just dont he will die in less than 20min good luck crying and breaking ur device after u spent 2h taming/finding just to look being killed by rex/trike or agventatis

How to get your own jet turret flyer like tropegnathus jump off your argie and grappe to it argies are slow so they wont catch up tranq till it goes down feed it its preferred rex kibble and boom you got yourself a quetzal then unlock its platform saddle and put minigun turret on his back

hey. does anyone just plain out grapple this and shoot it ko. you might need parachute for when it falls bc its ko

Bro the sound of quetzel is so f*******

annoying

If you have a quetzal, just make a trap in it and u can solo tame 👌👌👌

Parachutes and toxicant darts.... and something that can fly.... aerial symbiote if you have so you don’t fall to your death

Took down a level 28 for a pursuit, used soothing balm and then with pursuit bonus exp got him to level 82

Welp,I saw one and did the argy+grapple trick and you'll never guess where it fell! The freaking swamp and somehow a sliver of his back is sticking out of the water and he doesn't drown.And I get some prime meat in him.Then I get attacked by two sarcos and a piranha,two seconds after I fight them of it says you have tamed a Quetzal! I was like WTH? HOW?

I used a tapejara to tame a quetzal solo. I added enough stone into my inventory to slow my ride, then hopped in the front seat with a tranq rifle and whistled my tapejara to attack the quetzal. Since it was slowed down, it wasn't able to get close enough to the quetzal to attack it after I started firing. When the quetzal was getting too far away, I dropped some rocks to speed up. It was overall a somewhat tedious process, but in the end it was worth it.

Get a flying dino some parachutes and something to knock it out preferably darts then set the flying dino to follow you get on it fly above the quetzal jump down use you chute and shoot the quetzal

Quetzal in extinction are stupid easy to solo tame, just use a snow owl and high dmg weapon. Freeze dive bomb the quetzal then hop off and shoot it then chase and repeat. Gl

Why dont everyone talks about the griffin method. If u are in late game and ur quetzal died. Use a griffin to knock it out. Since griffins are fast and u can use either a longneck or crossbow to tame it. It may not sound fun but trust me. Works everytime. Hope this helps

You can use a rare flower and a birdcage trap in order to tame. Use 4 behemoth gateways and 2 gates, line them up like you would an argy trap, use the flower next to the Quetzal when it flies close to something like a mountain, or use it on the back of a flyer, and lead it into the trap just like you would an argy.

Net gun it out of sky trank it to unconscious then put meat in Inventory then wait

In ark I am in the middle of taming a pretzel lol but since a low level (no offense) can’t tame one because they don’t know how or don’t have a tapejara you should probably be a minimum of level 55 to tame one. Anyway, … what were we talking about? Oh ya, a pretzel. Anywayyyyy, you need a Three saddled Tapejara a bunch of narcotics(or any other narcotics) and a bunch of meat just in case you should probably go to the big red floating stone thing off to the bottom left beach area of the map or you can just see it from the other half of the world but fly there with your tapejara. There shou,d be Pretzels there and I would recommend getting a girl. You come close to the Pretzal WITH your tapejara try to switch seats(in the front seat) and target the pretzel then get a crossbow loaded with a tranq arrow ready and shoot it. When it is over water and you think you have shot it like 28 times wait until it gets over land and then shoot it some more. Make sure your tapejara doesn’t do that much damage to it. When it falls follow it, shove the stuff into it’s inventory, spawn your strongest tames, and tame it. My rule is NEVER LET THE UNCONSCIOUS LEVEL GET HIGHER THAN YOUR TAMING LEVEL:)

Single Player:

.Get Tapejara

.Grab Longneck with 100 tranq darts or use bow with 200 hundred tranq arrows

.Use Prime meat or kibble and soothing balm if you have one

Multiplayer:

.Have Pt with good weight and pick up your friend

.Have tranqs or darts and repeat last 2 tips on single player tips