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I'm not sure about the whole experience while riding thing. You may get some, but I think it is way less than if you kill it yourself. I am pretty sure that what/whoever strikes the killing blow gets the majority of the XP. If you have not hits in at all I don't know if you get any regardless of how close you are. I killed an alpha several weeks ago that some of the, at the time, newer guys didn't get any XP from even though they were in the area. They may still not hove been close enough, but it makes me wonder.
I was there, on the pteradon above you when you killed it. It was a low-level alpha rapter, if I recall correctly.
However, the assist experience can definitely be significant with alphas. When Creto and I were both mounted on t-rex killing alphas the day before, we were both getting multiple levels on both ourselves and our dinos when we killed many of them (depending on levels). I want to say I got experience when just nearby for some when they'd go down before I could get a bite in. IE he'd kill one, and we'd both get the trophy and advance a level or two.
IIRC, Creto got both experience and the stego head trophy when we killed the alpha t-rex, and if I recall correctly all he did was hover on the argent while I dangled from its talons and shot arrows. D'Funk delivered the killing blow on a t-rex, and we all got a crap-ton of experience.
We just need to test this. Someone look at their experience points, hover on a bird above the fight, then check experience afterwards.