A rogue elephant learned its lesson not to mess with strange objects after getting its tusks trapped inside a water drum.

The young male tusker slipped through a metal fence erected to keep wild animals out and strayed into Ballur Hundi village near Nanjangud in southern India on January 24.

Footage of the incident shows the elephant's tusks pierced into a drum as the animal struggles to shrug it off.

According to local media, upon straying into Ballur Hundi village, the elephant ransacked the farm for food, where it came across two large drums kept to store water by a local farmer Krishna.

The elephant then turned its rage onto one of the drums and tried to rip into it, trapping itself.

After 10 minutes, the elephant managed to free itself and a team of forest officials, who arrived at the village, managed to drive it back into the forest.

A rogue elephant perhaps learnt a lesson not to mess with strange objects after surviving a few anxious moments.

The young male tusker slipped through through a metal fence erected to keep wild animals out and strayed into Ballur Hundi village near Nanjangud in southern India on January 24.

It ran helter skelter, ransacking farms for food and came across two large drums kept to store water by a local farmer Krishna.

It turned its rage on one of them and tried to rip into it only to find iutself trapped.

The elephant pierced its tusks into the drum but was unable to pull them back. It struggled for 10 minutes to shrug it off and then figured out a way to use its trunk and leg to free its tusks.

The unsettling experience calmed down the behemoth and it stood quietly. A team of forest officials, who arrived at the village, managed to drive it back to the forest.