A wild elephant stopped passing cars to search for food.

Footage shows the lone jumbo occupying one side of the road as it poke its trunk around a sedan in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand on June 18.

The elephant let the vehicle leave when it found none and approached a pickup truck on the opposite lane and rummaged on the cargo.

Driver Chananchai Yaiprasert said: ‘The animal was not hurting us. It only wanted some food. We waited until it was done.'

Chananchai and his friends left the area after the elephant returned to the forest.

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.