Hey everyone, I'm still pretty new to this board and didn't really know where to post this.but I know you all know as well as I that the reason we got into husbandry to begin with was because we love learning and studying the animals that we are so passionate about. Throughout the years I have seen crazy things I have seen one neonate copperhead completely eat another one almost identical in size ( they were both from the same clutch and in the tank together ),although information about copperheads actually eating other copperheads or other snakes even is scarce if any at all. So that was pretty amazing to me. As some of you may know I've kept lizards throughout the years but never for a really long time. I recently acquired my first Bearded Dragon who I love very much. something for everything pictures of her those of you who may be interested I would be glad to post some here for you to look at if you would like or if there's somewhere else on this board were you just post pictures I can post them there. That way we wouldn't get off the topic here( more so than we already have). Anyway I recently noticed that after my little girl eats, her gular pouch looks a little swollen. When you touch it you can feel the food she just consumed. The food doesn't stay there long before it finally moves down into her digestive system. However it does stay there for about five minutes a lot of the time. As many of you may know bearded dragons along with a lot of other lizard species are currently being found out that they are actually venomus to an extent. As we know a lot of lizards like the Mexican beaded lizard and gila monster have grooved teeth in which the venom travels down into its prey. I was wondering if it was possible that maybe the gular pouch aids in pre-digestion kind of how teeth do. Do bearded dragons chew their food up and then hold it in their gular pouch while the very mild venom that they do have drains into the gular pouch, they let it stay there long enough to get consumed by the venom, and then swallow it down? I tried to look up medical information on bearded dragons and everything but can't find any information. But as you know, many animal species haven't really been closely studied in ways that they could be. Maybe there's things about our little loved ones that we've not learned yet. Thoughts?