He didn't chew on the lake monster. He bit the lake monster, and only because it bit him first!

(Okay, so maybe sometimes he thought the research team was just a little right that he might have a second power that no one knew was there cause his main power voided everything that got near him to check. Maybe. Sometimes.)

More or less catch, yes. The fact that it had to slide down the animalanche instead of dropping right at him helped, too. If that also meant it slid through frog blood, at least he could wipe that off. "Gonna get a little noisy down here. Hey, maybe that'll get them to move faster!" Ever the optimist.