Coelacanth

The Coelacanth (see-luh-kanth) is one of the creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved.

Behavior
Coelacanths are the Arks’ generic fish, plain and simple. Harmless, they will lazily swim around until provoked. At that point, they will attempt to swim away but not always succeed. Due to their shear numbers, ability to survive practically anywhere that’s wet and their place at the bottom of the food chain, they are perhaps one of the most important creatures on any map. Without the coelacanth, the entire ark ecosystem would very likely collapse.

Appearance
Coelacanths are lobe-finned fish, with rounded heads and eight fins. Unlike their dark blue and black real life counterparts, the coelacanths of ARK come in a variety of colours.

Combat
This section describes how to fight against the Coelacanth.

General
Coelacanth are frail and fairly slow. Hunting them is easy. If you have a Brontosaurus, going near a water source and simply swinging that way once or twice is a good way to farm these, considering the huge range of its attack, but simply puching them with your fists can work just as well.

Strategy
Coelacanth are extremely docile and passive, meaning they will not attack the player. Simply going into the water with spear at the ready is strategy enough. When you begin to attack them, they start to swim away, so if you have no level ups in Movement Speed or Oxygen chasing them may be a challenge. However, they still swim slowly enough while fleeing, that they can be caught up to easily.

Weaponry
Coelacanth have low health, and are easily killed with just a spear. (If killed with a spear, the coel will be automatically picked up by the player)

Dangers
Coelacanth by themselves do not pose a threat to the player, however other creatures, such as the Piranha, and drowning are things to look out for.

Weakness
They can't do anything to defend themselves and are killed easily; lower level Coelacanth can be simply one shot with a throw of a spear or just killed with your bare hands. The only defense it is considered to have is its instinct to swim away quickly.

Taming
Coelacanth can be 'tamed' using. While they can level, they do not eat from the trough. Just put food (meat or fish) in their inventory and force feed, if necessary. Note that while they can be tamed, there is no practical reason at this time to do so, as all their uses can be achieved just as easily with their Wild counterparts. This could change with future updates, or as players experiment more.

Roles
Food Source: Leveling up Coelacanth will basically fatten them up and provide the survivor with a steady source of fish meat.

Pet: Coelacanths of all colors can add life to a base with a pond or other small water source.

Pearls: Coelacanths can yield Silica Pearls if being harvested by an Otter occasionally Black Pearls.

Notes/Trivia

 * The Coelacanth is Ark's all purpose, everyday fish. Essentially, they represent the millions of fish species that can be caught, harvested, etc, while generally not posing a direct threat to humans.
 * In real life, Coelacanth's meat is actually bad for humans, as it contains oil, wax, urea, and other compounds that are hard to be digested. This could cause diarrhea. This is pointed out in the dossier, which states meat of Coelacanth nutritia contains less oil and urea than those of other Coelocanth species making it more suitable for eating.
 * Coelacanth, was believed to be extinct 65 million years ago, until it was discovered again, alive, in 1938, although they have been in steep decline since the dinosaur era and are critically endangered.
 * As of patch v180.0, when you kill a Coelacanth or Piranha with a spear, the fish is instantly grabbed so that you can stay out of the water.
 * Depending on how much melee damage % you skilled on yourself or your Dino, gives you more out of Coelacanths.
 * Coelacanth are often a cause of severe lag for many players because they can spawn in enormous numbers in the rivers and lakes further inland. Therefore, a way to reduce lag for many local games is to lower the Dino Count from 1.0 to about 0.5.
 * As of patch v235, Coelacanths come in different sizes, giving different amounts of meat depending on its size.
 * Coelacanths are one of the only creatures in ARK to have an extremely similar real-life counterpart.
 * Coelacanth do not produce.
 * Helena has written in her dossier and notes that the Coelacanth have limited intelligence and are unsuitable for taming.
 * The Coelacanth along with, , and  became tamable with the  introduced in Aberration.
 * The Coelacanth is one of several creatures that spawn on all maps, the other being Parasaur, Equus, Raptor, Carno etc. as well as the distinction of being only fully aquatic animal on Scorched Earth.
 * Coelacanths in ARK are not assigned genders.
 * The Aberrant variant of Coelacanth is misspelled as "Abberant Coelacanth", when it should be "Aberrant Coelacanth"