Not sure if anyone brought this up, but supposing Thud had been more right (i.e. the others had to go back as night fell) and then they weren't found, say, for about 2 weeks.
Would Chomper have caved into eating Ducky? (I mean, eating Thud instead would be a bit harder to do.)
That kind of bothers me.
I mean, Thud actually brings up that subject, asking Chomper if he is going to eat Ducky.
Another thing nobody mentioned here, at least in this thread, and I don't see it often on the forums, maybe I don't look too hard, is if Chomper gets a lot of flack from other Sharpteeth for befriending leaf eaters. I mean, Thud seemed like he was mocking Chomper when Chomper said that Ducky was his friend.
Chomper's odd (for a Sharptooth) behavior wasn't just questioned by Thud, but by Chomper's own father, who, seeing Chomper gathering leaves in the fifth film, says "Sometimes I worry about that boy."
Back to Chomper and Ducky, one wonders if Ducky was ever thinking, even if she wouldn't say it out loud:
"I wonder, if we are not rescueded and we stay here a few days, if Chomper might get so hungry and I will get eated by him."
Arguably, Chomper wouldn't eat her until things got so bad that he would do it in the end out of nature and no thought to it and it wouldn't be him. And, also, one would think that, by that point, Ducky would be so poor off herself that it actually would be for the best for her if that happened (as opposed to dying of hunger, which is an awful way to die.).
Still, if Chomper did that and then got found, would they have let him die in retaliation or still rescued him and sent him off into the Mysterious Beyond, knowing he couldn't go back to the Great Valley?