Never underestimate how far these things can jump! I flew with my argy around the Redwood during a metal run and I spotted one of these a good distance away on a tree. Figured I'd give it a wide berth and go around it via the swamp. I'm smack in the middle of the swamp as high as the Redwood treeline and the next thing I know this thing jumps me off my argy and pinned me to the swamp floor and murders me and my argy who was on aggro. In my death throws I saw that it was at level 95. Like an OP homing missile they are when they leveled up. Now I use the coastline as my flight path to metal runs on the peaks.

if you want to avoid them, take your flying tame and fly OVER the redwoods. above the treetops. you can do that or go around, or take a snow owl and keep the owl vision on to spot them and go around. you can also go on a griffin, but NEVER DIVE in the redwoods, because they can pounce you off your griffin. you can shoot off the back of a griffin if you want to tame them.

The best PvP strategy is to tame one of these then ask your enemy to go to redwood forest. Then follow your enemy when he is at the forest. Then he will sit there in confusion like what?. Then jump down form the tree and OHHHHH RKO OUTTA NOWHERE.pounce on him and he’s dead. Rinse and repeat with other PvP enemies.

Make a trike taming pen but taller. Stop these guys up with an Argy and throw them in there. Tranq them out and be prepared to keep them asleep with narcotic. I like to find these on the NE side of the mountain area on Scorched Earth so they can’t jump out of a tree and knock you off your tame.

If this thing grabs you just shotgun it and try and survive. If it’s a high level you are probably dead, but try and shoot it anyway, there’s a chance of survival.

If you see it on the tree then land somewhere safe and shoot it off. If ur on a griffin you can shoot off the back obviously.

FLY ABOVE THE TREES IN THE REDWOODS, THESE THINGS ARE DEVILS!!

Best tactic I've come up with is to (double check before entering red woods) have your flyer following you and on Neutral/Attack your Target. When you're pounced off your mount, use a melee weapon in quick slot 1 (sword works perfectly) while your flyer backs you up in a few seconds, you'll almost certainly make it :P

if you have a sword and decent armor, you should be ok if you get pounced on by a low level one. i know this because it’s happened to me multiple times, and i’ve always been able to kill it before i got too much damage. just kill it quickly enough so it doesn’t kill you with the bleeding rebuff it gives

Yeah, just let the first one today. The wife and I got two of the pelicans fr the beach tamed and mounted, and we're trying to get crystal. So we head to the redwoods, start flying through the massive trees when she goes "wtf of that" before Randy Orton nabs her ass and yeets her sixty feet down, pinning her to the ground and mauling her. She tried stabbing it with her pike but, it had her too good and her, her mount, and her otter were butchered. Luckily I was able to land on a cliff overlooking the...well, crime scene at this point, and headshot it with a rifle after it killed one of those giant rhinos and a few snakes.

And the snakes killed my bird too, so, yay, another taming run.