This giraffe might have taken the phrase 'wind your neck in' a little too literally.

A group of tourists snapped the bizarre photograph, which appears to show the unusual phenomenon of a giraffe with no neck, while on safari in South Africa.

The animal had apparently had an itch he needed to scratch and stretched his long neck around to his side.

But one lucky photographer managed to capture the unusual view.

'I didn't realise how funny the picture was going to look until after I'd taken it,' said photographer and safari guide Arno Pietersen, 30, who captured the shot.

Having a giraffe! This is the hilarious moment a group of tourists captured a photograph which appeared to show a giraffe with no neck