This is the shocking moment two wild elephants ran across a road and made a beeline for a local orchard to eat fruits.

The two jumbos, Plai Sarika and Plai Nga Diew, snuck into the fruit plantation owned by a local farmer in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, on March 11.

Bodin Chanthasrikham, a fruit farm owner, said: ‘Lots of my crops were devastated by the two jumbos.’

Khao Yai National Park officers, together with members of elephant communities and volunteers rushed to the farm to monitor the situation and prepare for any untoward incidents. The elephants later left the farm and walked into a forest area in the national park.

Thailand has an estimated 2,000 Asian elephants living in the wild but there is often conflict when they come into contact with humans on roads and in villages. A similar number of elephants are kept captive where they work in zoos and are hired out for religious festivals and weddings.

Conservationists even believe that some elephants have even evolved to prefer food from humans driving passing cars over the jungle food.