Dorito head.

Wear ghillie suit before approaching. Crouch/crawl up to then when it lands and use tranquilizer darts instead of arrows. Arrows have a very high kill chance. Once it goes down circle the tame with spike walls as tapejara are very fragile!

My dudes I recomend Gillette suit,bola then tranq it. if u have access to allow kibble THEN USE IT! They love allo kibble.if u don't have allo kibble just use prime meat and make sure u have a lot of narcotics at least 50 or 100

What you need:

1 full ghillie suit, they can be made from the polymer dropped by penguins

1-5 bolas

Tranq weapon of choice

20-50 raw meat (preferably with some prime meat too)

About 20 narcotics, just to be safe

I. The easiest way I found to tame them is to look at the spawn map in the Dododex to determine the best area to find one. Anywhere southeast of the green obelisk is a good are for the island map. Once you've found where you want to look, put on your ghillie suit and head over there. IMPORTANT! DO NOT RIDE A MOUNT, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH UNNOTICED

1. Walk around a bit until you find one.

2. Once you've found one, crouch to get closer. Once you start getting very close go prone (you are nearly invisible while prone in a ghillie suit).

3. Once you think you have a good shot throw a bola at it. Don't worry if you miss, it won't notice you unless you get up. If it gets away and doesn't notice you, repeat step 3 (Once it starts flying you still have a chance at hitting it before it gets too far)

4. Once it's stuck on the ground, knock it out. Try to aim for the head to conserve your ammo.

5. Put some meat in its inventory, if you start running out you can hunt in the area to get more. Check up on it every few minutes to give it some narcotics so it stays asleep.

You now have a tapejara, feel free to put a saddle on it and ride it back home. Up if helpful

Probably the best flyer on The Ark, while I still think the Wyvern might be better on Scorched earth. Still, I love that you can hang upside down and on sheer cliffs. My absolute favorite flyer. 😊 good luck out there!

You can eat rare mushrooms or rare flowers to anger these things

Honestly if you find one in the air on any flyer fly high above it, whip out a crossbow and grapple to it, whistle your flyer to follow you so you don't have to find it again (or just make sure you have it done beforehand). Finally, switch to a bow or a rifle and tranq that guy and make sure you detach and pop a chute before you hit the ground. Quite possibly the wildest way to tame a Tapejara or a Quetzal.

Used rare flower while flying the pteradon, landed the pteradon in a safe place and dismounted..it was aggro at the other bird..then bola and tranq..easy tame.

A good idea for knocking one out is to use the calming mist from a Pachyrhinosaurus. It won't freak out and fly away when you calm it, which gives you the opportunity to bola it and then tranq it.

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.

Ragebait it with a flower then tranq it before it flies away (it loses interest after a while). Useful for getting a quetz, and I think it also has potential at getting a titanosaur (with help from a friend with a rocket launcher). Also has a tech saddle. They’re a nice in between in stats and speed between an Argentavis and pteranodon

I recommend you set a trap, Tapejara won't let anyone get close. (I'm Brazilian so I apologize if there's an error in English)

You can cheese them by going out of render after shooting them with your tranq of choice. They become calm again after going out of render so this trick makes them pretty easy. Rinse and repeat and you have yourself a tape. (Have not tested on anything besides mobile. Good luck!)

Easy tame my ahh rear. look at it funny and it flies away at moch 10.

Bola that mf outta the sky they don’t take fall damage

if you can wait, on ark mobile you get a Journeyman tapejara saddle after completing the Thin Air pursuit, so you won’t have to wait to get the engram

When sprinting (fleeing) they’re the fastest dinosaur in ark

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 🫤

When I looked these up people said they are very difficult to find but I find them all the time when I'm exploring and I'm not even trying to find them. (I play solo on the island btw)

You can eat rare flowers, then it will not fly away😂