They open and close their mouth when they are shedding. It looks like yawning, but it's how they pull the skin to their mouth and they eat it. Yummy right?
Do they also do this if they are hungry? Every time it seems its been a few days since I have fed my guy, he will come out of his hole and start opening his mouth randomly. I thought that maybe, if he lived in the wild, this would work for catching flies and things.