These dudes are amazing tames cause while slow at first they can get pretty fast with only a few levels pumped into speed. They can cling to surfaces and allow you to snipe things from a tree. They can carry three people and if solo you can whistle it to follow you and switch seats and it will hover in the air while you shoot the creatures below.(if you have them whistled to be stopped they will land though) if they run low on stamina unlike other flyers you don't have to land just switch seats for a bit and keep going. They are one of the safest ways to take out powerful creatures too. Their saddle is also gotten pretty early so you can ride them in about mid game. And finally they are a good way to tame a quetzal. Overall an amazing tame absolutely would recommend. Their only problem is their hard to find and if it sees you it will fly off to high heaven and you'll never see it again.

If you're wondering "dang, why does the tapejara fly not as fast as expected, i can't even catch up to a wild tapejara. do i need less weight? lemme get rid of some items." then you're right. The tapejara loses about 55% of its movement speed when its tamed, but the game "compensates" the loss by buffing its movement speed to like 250% so that it is almost as fast as a wild tapejara, but it is exacerbated by the fact that you will usually be riding the tapejara while its weight is about 40% occupied.

I don’t know if anybody else had this hard of a time while taming this thing. First and second attempts, (every attempt is a different tapejara) my bola went through it and it got spooked and flew away. Third attempt, I managed to bola it and knock it, then seconds later it got demolished by my thylacoleo as I accidentally targeted it instead of the titanoboa about to take a bite. Fourth attempt, see first and second attempt. Fifth attempt, it was bola’d and knocked, then it got eaten by a posse of dilophosaurs who got one two many hits in before I killed them all. I gave up for a while. I had convinced myself it just wasn’t meant to be. Taking one last chance I went back out to the 2 mile radius around the green obelisk. before FINALLY bola-ing one and knocking it in a peaceful area. It was a level 4 and took 3 superior kibble (all I had brought) on 2x taming speed. Ouch.

I have been planning to take a tapejara for a while so once I finally worked up enough courage to do so, I’ve looked through a lot of these submits and I’ve noticed that people spend so much time just to find one, the second I went looking for one I found one, then I proceeded to tranq it, but after three tranq arrows to the head I killed it 🫤