Derek has lapsed into a semi-delirious state as a result of infection from the bat bite combined with a secret love for horror movies (specifically the Night Wing trilogy), he now believes he is in danger of turning into a vampire. The next morning, Derek disappears, hijacking one of the airboats ferrying the crew and their equipment and driving wildly into the swamp. When a large mastiff bat lands unexpectedly in their camp, Derek improvises a scene in which he plans to eat it, but the bat chomps his tongue in self-defense, and Mickey has to remove the creature without further mutilating Derek. The final fiasco occurs one night, when a lightning storm has grounded the helicopter and forced Derek to camp with the rest of the crew. Tuna, originally a huge fan of Expedition: Survival!, is dispirited to learn just how fake the show and Derek are for instance, his trademark parachute entrance into the wilderness is performed by a stuntman, and between shooting sessions, he is airlifted by helicopter to a luxury hotel in Miami. Derek's clumsiness leads him to suffer a number of injuries, including being bitten a dozen times by an agitated banded water snake that he was attempting to kill and eat. Predictably, the shoot in the Everglades is a series of fiascoes. Unsure what else to do, Wahoo invites her to join them on their camping trip into the Everglades. While buying supplies at a Walmart in Florida City, the Crays are joined by Tuna Gordon, a teenaged classmate of Wahoo's, fleeing her abusive, alcoholic father, Jared Gordon.
In addition to helping with the animals, Wahoo has to restrain his father, who becomes dangerously short-tempered while dealing with the show's flabby, obese, pampered, and obnoxious star, Derek Badger, who has little experience dealing with actual nature and no interest in learning. Wahoo Cray and his father, Mickey Cray, a professional animal wrangler, are hired to help with the latest episode of a reality series titled Expedition Survival! As Mickey was injured shortly before by an iguana falling on his head and is suffering the aftereffects of a serious concussion, Wahoo takes it upon himself to accept for both of them while his mother is on a business trip in China.
His previous three, also about Florida wildlife, are Hoot, Flush and Scat. Chomp is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2012, and set in Hiaasen's native Florida.
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