From our friends at Urlesque, we have a last-minute addition to our list of 20 Combinations of Animals Riding Other Animals:

Baby Monkey on Dog

However, this ain’t yo daddy’s “animal happens to be near other animal and photo taken” story. The dog is actually the baby monkey’s bodyguard:

Keepers at Jiaozuo City Zoo said the monkey was always being bullied and they had intervened to save his life several times.

“So we put a dog in the monkey cage, hoping he can protect the orphan,” a zoo spokesman told the China News Network.

“The alpha male monkey has been really unhappy since we sent in Sai Hu. He tried to organise several ambushes on the little monkey, but they all failed because of the dog,” added the spokesman.

1 - Zoos in Jiaozuo sound awwwwesome.

2 - To further the Internet-ness of this post, I’ve taken eight seconds to make the following obligatory Photoshop (after the jump):