Wild Babies

In  ARK: Survival Ascended, creatures can spawn in the wild as babies. Their stats and colors are usually an identical copy of their parent, with a tiny chance of a single mutation.

Behavior

Wild babies will follow their parent, they could freely move ~2 foundations around it, but if the parent moves farther than that the baby will move towards it.

If the parent or the baby itself is getting attacked the baby will stay with its parent and the parent will fight, even if the species commonly flee like  Parasaur or  Moschops. Once the parent is dead the baby will flee.

If the parent is knocked out the baby will stay near it, however if the parents got tamed by a tribe the baby start to flee from it.

Taming And Raising

Wild babies can be claimed by any player once its parent is dead or tamed. If the player decides to claim it, the baby will not receive any extra level and will keep its wild level. If the player uses a  Gigantoraptor the baby will gain extra levels based on the Gigantoraptor's current levelled levels (A full 88 levelled Gigantoraptor will give any claimed baby 50% more levels as it was tamed with 100% of taming efficiency).

Once claimed, They will behave much like normal wild babies, requiring care and extra food as well as imprinting until adulthood. Checking the "Ancestry Tab" of the Dino will depict the parent of the baby, respective to the gender of the parent, with the other gender not being specified and given as a wild ancestor.

Potential Creatures

The Types of creatures that have the possibility to Spawn with wild babies along with the maximum age that those babies could spawn with and the amount of babies that could spawn with a single parent:

Species / Common Name	Maximum Age	1 Baby	2 Babies	3 Babies
Allosaurus	10%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Ankylosaurus	30%	25%	5%
Archaeopteryx	40%	13%	2%
Armadoggo	30%	30%	8%	2%
Brontosaurus	30%	25%	4.5%	0.5%
Bulbdog	20%	30%	8%	2%
Carbonemys	10%	15%	5%
Carno	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Castoroides	10%	30%	8%	2%
Ceratosaurus	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Chalicotherium	30%	25%	4.5%	0.5%
Compy	10%	8.5%	1.3%	0.2%
Daeodon	10%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Dilophosaur	10%	15%	5%
Dimetrodon	30%	27.5%	2.5%
Diplodocus	10%	30%	8%	2%
Dire Bear	40%	30%	8%	2%
Direwolf	35%	30%	8%	2%
Dodo	40%	15%	5%
Doedicurus	30%	12.5%	2.5%
Equus /  Unicorn	35%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Featherlight	20%	30%	8%	2%
Gallimimus	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Gacha	25%	12.5%	2.5%
Gigantopithecus	40%	30%	8%	2%
Glowtail	20%	30%	8%	2%
Hyaenodon	30%	30%	8%	2%
Iguanodon	30%	12.5%	2.5%	0.5%
Jerboa	30%	30%	8%	2%
Kairuku	66%	33%	33%
Karkinos	30%	12.5%	2.5%
Kentrosaurus	30%	30%	8%	2%
Lystrosaurus	10%	15%	5%
Mammoth	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Megalosaurus	40%	30%	8%	2%
Megatherium	40%	12.5%	2.5%
Mesopithecus	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Microraptor	50%	12.5%	2.5%
Morellatops	30%	30%	8%	2%
Moschops	10%	15%	5%
Otter	40%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Oviraptor	40%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Ovis	10%	30%	8%	2%
Pachy	10%	15%	4%	1%
Pachyrhinosaurus	30%	7%	10%	3%
Paraceratherium	30%	25%	4.5%	0.5%
Parasaur	40%	15%	4%	1%
Pegomastax	20%	15%	5%
Phiomia	25%	30%	8%	2%
Procoptodon	30%	15%
Raptor	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Ravager	20%	16%	3.5%	0.5%
Rex	30%	12.5%	2.5%
Roll Rat	30%	12.5%	2.0%	0.5%
Sabertooth	25%	30%	8%	2%
Shinehorn	20%	30%	8%	2%
Stegosaurus	40%	30%	8%	2%
Terror Bird	40%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Therizinosaur	30%	12.5%	2.5%
Thorny Dragon	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Thylacoleo	25%	10%
Triceratops	40%	30%	8%	2%
Troodon	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%
Velonasaur	25%	12.5%	2.5%
Woolly Rhino	30%	25%	4.5%	0.5%
Yutyrannus	30%	12.5%	2%	0.5%

Notes

• Wild babies can also spawn with Mutations and Traits, so they are good options to easy get those attributes.
• Because sometimes is easier to kill a creature than to try to tame it, the babies will result a good alternative to tame certain creatures with difficult taming method like the  Troodon.
• The  Gigantoraptor is currently the only way to claim wild babies without "losing" the extra taming levels.
• Although in the ARK: Survival Ascended first trailer appears a wild  Argentavis with its babies it is actually not possible to found those babies in the wild.
  • A similar situation happened with the Extinction trailer showing baby  Snow Owls.