About Priya Natarajan
Priya Natarajan covers small pets for The Faunalist: guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, bearded dragons and leopard geckos. Most of her work is the question owners search at the moment it matters, which is whether a particular food is safe and in what quantity. She writes those answers against veterinary sources rather than forum consensus, primarily the RSPCA and PDSA care standards, the House Rabbit Society, university veterinary school material and published nutrition research on each species, with attention to the things that quietly cause harm over time, such as calcium to phosphorus ratios in reptile diets and vitamin C in guinea pigs. Anything that could become a medical decision ends with a clear pointer to an exotics vet. Priya Natarajan is a pen name used by a member of the Faunalist editorial team. She is not a veterinarian and never presents her guides as a substitute for one.
What Priya covers
- Guinea pigs
- Rabbits
- Hamsters
- Bearded dragons
- Leopard geckos
- Small pet nutrition
- Small pet husbandry
- Exotic pet care
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How these guides are researched
Small pet guides are researched against veterinary and welfare sources rather than forum consensus: RSPCA and PDSA care standards, the House Rabbit Society, university veterinary school material and published nutrition research for each species. Safe food answers include quantity and frequency, because most of the harm in small pet diets comes from the amount rather than the ingredient, and they cover the slow problems too, such as calcium to phosphorus ratios for reptiles and vitamin C for guinea pigs.
Identification, range and safety claims are checked against at least two independent sources before publishing, and where the sources disagree the article says so instead of picking the tidier answer. The full process, including which institutions we treat as authoritative for each subject area, is on our editorial standards page.
A note on the byline
Priya Natarajan is a pen name used by a member of The Faunalist editorial team, and the portrait above is an illustration rather than a photograph. The person behind the name writes this subject area and nothing else. We do not claim degrees, licences or field credentials that our writers do not hold, and anything that needs a professional is sent to one inside the article. Our reasoning for working this way is set out on the editorial standards page.
Corrections and contact
Found something wrong in one of these guides, or have a question about a source? Write to [email protected] with the article name and what you found. Corrections are checked against our sources and made in the article itself.