A furious elephant chased a motorcycle rider that was trying to pass through a forest road.

The wild jumbo stalled traffic as it checked cars and delivery trucks for sugar cane in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand on May 17.

But the creature - already annoyed after inspecting several vehicles and not one carried something to eat - turned angry and tried to charge at a rider that rode too close behind it.

Footage shows the rider slowly approaching the lane next to the animal. But the creature saw him coming and ran after him instead.

Rider Warakorn Noijajran said: ‘I will definitely not try doing that again. The elephant was angry that there was no sugar cane from the trucks. I almost died.'

Warakorn reversed his two-wheeler and sped away while the jumbo was running behind him.

But despite the encounter with the hot-tempered animal, Warakorn escaped and reached home unscathed.

He said: ‘One wrong move and an elephant could have trampled me and my bike to death.'

As of 2023, there are an estimated 3,084-3,500 wild elephants in Thailand. The population has been increasing in recent years, but it is still a fraction of the estimated 300,000 wild elephants that lived in Thailand at the beginning of the 20th century. The main threats to wild elephants in Thailand are habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and conflict with humans.