A wild elephant emerged from a forest and tried to open a car window in northeastern Thailand.

Footage shows the jumbo knocking on the glass using its trunk before trying to find a way inside in Khao Yai National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima province on April 4.

Car driver Somboon Raksapol said: 'At first we were scared but I think it was just hungry and trying to search food inside our car. It then calmly walked away after failing to open the window.'

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.