FOR A TECHNICALLY ACCURATE BAT

MOONRISE TATTOO COLLECTIVE

julia hayes has a niche tattoo specialty: finely drawn and precisely rendered animals, which tend to look torn from the pages of an old bestiary. “They almost feel like science plates,” says Myllicent Felder, a teacher with four of Hayes’s tattoos. Hayes has handled most every species, including a barred owl holding a mouse in its talons, an arm-length rendering of a white-tailed deer, a trio of cows done just above an ankle, and an intricately spotted frog. For Felder, she recently tattooed a bat below one knee and a bat’s skeleton below the other. “I told her the scientific name of the specific bat I wanted, Myotis lucifugus,” says Felder. “She researched it to make sure she was putting the bones in the exact right place.” (From $100.)