Photographer captures monkey “enjoying a free ride” on the back of a deer in Japanese forest

An unusual photo of a monkey riding on a deer’s back has actually gone viral after the U.K. Natural History Museum launched it in a sneak peek of its Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitors. The photo, fired by Atsuyuki Ohshima in a Japanese forest, recorded the uncommon– yet not unheard-of– communication in between a macaque and also a deer.

Atsuyuki seen a unexpected activity of the deer, a sika stag, and afterwards saw a Yakushima macaque springing off a tree and also onto the deer’sback

Atsuyuki shared the picture, entitled “Forest Rodeo,” on Instagram, discussing in the subtitle that “male macaques have been seen clinging to female deer and trying to mate with them.”