This is the hilarious moment a monkey appears to be riding on the back of a giraffe thanks to a perfectly-time photograph taken in Uganda.    

Dirk-Jan Steehouwer, 48, who is from The Netherlands, was at the Murchison Falls National Park when the opportunity for a perfect photo appeared in front of him.

Dirk said: 'On this safari day we first spotted the male and female giraffe on a nice hillside in the beautiful grass.

'Just a bit further some monkeys were playing around a small termite hill with some bush and a dead tree branch.

'We moved over to the cute playful monkeys and shortly after the female giraffe moved behind the back of the dead tree and the playing monkey family.