A wild elephant stopped and checked out cars for food on a rural road in Thailand.

Footage shows the jumbo causing a heavy traffic jam as it tried to peer through the vehicle's windows in Phetchaburi province on June 16.

But after the creature confirmed that the cars didn't carry something to eat, he left them alone.

It returned to the forest, and the traffic went back to its normal flow.

One of the drivers stuck in the ham Look Tao said: ‘That's why we don't carry food at the back of our cars when we pass through here. It's like a magnet to the elephants.'

No one was hurt nor reported damaged in the incident.

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.