A great taming mount with friends! Have one person drive and another shoot tranqs, makes tranqing flying creatures like argies and quetz a breeze, but you can also use this technique to tranq just about anything. Solo, you can hook onto walls such as cliff sides and try to fire from the saddle, although the angle tends to be difficult.

Otherwise, it makes a great "pick up" mount, use it to pick up friends that may have lost their flying mount or otherwise stranded themselves far from home.

However they are quite slow, consider putting a number of points in speed and a few in weight, especially if you want to keep up with fleeing quetz. With enough weight they can become an interesting alternative to an argy.

You would think they would wake up extremely fast due to their skittish nature and excellent speed but NO, a level 30 takes 45 minutes to wake up, like wtf Wildcard Studios?

Use rare flowers to aggro the tapejara and lead it to a flyer taming cage.

Tapejara is the only flyer that can fly forward and backward, as well as side to side.

Just sayin

Aim a bola above his head from a range and don't get to close or it will crush your dreams

These guys are pretty underrated but sometimes you can use it's ability to cling onto walls to tame or kill a dino from a safe distance. Just make sure the dino is able to be aimed at with the camera.

I found three of them near red obelisk on the island for anyone who can't find one

It can land on any vertical structure and you can use weapons whilst on it. I haven’t got mine yet but if I do I’ll name it Ikaro.

I cannot find your tip to thank you, but advice to just kill then revive at platform was just what i needed after stalking and bolo'ing and trying unsuccessfully to trap or KO. Granted it took 26 amber for level 210, it was totally worth it, thanks to you!

I once found a helpful glitch with the Tapejara. I was solo taming a quetzal, when I discovered that if you change to a passenger seat and reload your gun, the Tapejara’s stamina automatically refills. I know it works on mobile with the Tapejara, but I don’t know if it works on other editions or on other dinos.

If it fets a way and flies too high, you better of leaving it as it wont land for quite awhile.

If your in ark mobile, and you have access to potent dust and dodo feathers, craft some dodo arrows and shoot the particular tapejara your looking for with the dodo arrow to activate agro on it and lure them. If your in normal ark (pc, ps4 or xbox) use rare flowers to lure it into a trap.

So to tame mine I actually didn't have a ghillie armor so I just landed my argy at like 2 meters of the tapejara, waited for it to land, then winded up my bola and ran at him lol

Then, I threw it on the tapejara and knocked it out with a tranq dart. Finally, I saw a diplo near it and killed it to get prime meat, gave it to the tapejara and boom tamed :)

Sorry if my english is bad lol

- Emerald

I use these things to tame quetzals

You can also set up a trap and eat rare flowers near it to have it chase you into said trap, if you don’t want to sneak and throw bolas

Can you bola it mid air (like what happens if the bola hits it flying or mid air)

Up if yes and down if no

They spawn near mountains

And redwoods

You should be really careful, as a frightened Tapejara will always try to escape your render-range, and will always end up very high if a Bola is not administered.

So annoying to tame. Once you notice it, it notices you and just dips.

Need to train my bola training because I miss everytime (and it loves to hang above the water because it wants drown once you drug it. fun.)

Once tamed you can get a buddy to fly on the it with you which makes it so much easier to knock out big dinosaurs like rexes and brontos. All you have to do is fly above it and let ur tribe mate shoot darts