ARK: Survival Ascended: How to Claim and Raise a Wild Baby

Find a wild baby with its parent

Survival Ascended creatures can appear in the wild as babies following a parent. The official community wiki distinguishes them from babies bred by your tribe. A knocked-out parent alone does not satisfy the claiming condition described there. [1]

Meet the claiming condition, then care for the baby

Steps

1. Tame the parent or claim the baby after the parent has died. The wiki says any player may claim it once either condition is met. [1]
2. Be ready to approach a fleeing baby after that change: it flees when the parent dies and also when the parent is tamed by a tribe. [1]
3. After claiming, continue providing food and care and meet its imprinting needs until adulthood. Claiming does not make the baby an adult tame. [1]

Understand an ordinary claim’s level result

An ordinary player claim preserves the baby’s wild level without extra levels. The wiki documents Gigantoraptor claiming as a separate system that can add levels, so these basic claiming steps do not promise a perfect-tame level bonus. [1]