What Your Bearded Dragon Does When the Lights Go Off — You've Never Seen This

Every night you turn off the basking lamp and assume your dragon goes to sleep. It doesn't — not in the way you think. What actually happens is one of the most ancient and precisely calibrated survival systems on earth. Running in the glass enclosure in your room. Right now. In this video we break down exactly what your bearded dragon's body and mind are doing in the dark — and what it's been doing while you sleep. 🦎 Subscribe for more reptile science — new video every week. Chapters: 0:00 — What really happens when the lights go off 1:24 — The light is not just light 3:20 — What its body does in the dark 5:10 — The eye that never fully closes 6:26 — What cold actually does 8:08 — The night your dragon watched you sleep 10:07 — What the dark tells you about what you have built