If your on crystal isle and your soloing it here's a good trick I used, first tame yourself a moth get a couple of parachutes and grappling hooks and your preferred amo with weapon, once you found one you like fly next to the quetzel and hop off the moth and grabbling hook it (dont forget parachute incase) and whistle it to attack quetzel the moth doesnt do damage but instead will slow it down for it bit while you shoot at it from below. This helped me tame it without having to whistle passive, attack target repeatedly.

Hope this helps

Be careful taming these, they have a glitch that makes them go to coordinates 50 50 when high torpor,

50 50 on the island is the redwoods,

50 50 on Ragnarok is murdersnow,

50 50 on the center I'm not totally sure,

50 50 on velguero is in the lake I think,

And 50 50 on extinction is the safest, in sanctuary city.

To the guy who gave specific areas to find these guys on mobile, thank you very much. You’re right… that strip of land in front of craggs island, and the spike directly behind the red obelisk. Kill it and take its implant, and revive it on a platform with an enclosure around it. I’m literally doing just that right now. Happy taming! :D

The easiest way to tame for mobile players is to kill it take its implant make a revival platform build a thatch house around the platform res pawn it knock it out give it meat give it a saddle and if you made the house right when you ride the quetzal he will tellport through the ceiling

Best way is to use a partner to help you chase it down w a argii or Pt but in my opinion the best way is to get a griffin and shoot at it. Hit box kinda sucks but wait and shoot and wait again while you chase it with tranqs. If it gets stuck on the side of a cliff while chasing it down … then much easier. Best solo way.

For some reason on Ark Mobile, it does not allow me to shoot off an Argentavis when grappled. I think that is a bug on my phone. Anyways, I found the easiest way to get a Quetzal is to ride a Tapejara with multiple seats on the saddle, and then go to second seat. When you do this, shoot the Quetzal and use the spy glass to target him. If you keep shooting the Quetzal while it runs, you should not have to whistle passive for your Tapejara. Then, grab some meat and a lot of bio toxin. Boom, you have your new Quetzal.