A wild elephant stopped passing trucks to check them for food in Thailand.

Footage shows the jumbo sniffing on one side of the lorry while the other vehicles also pulled over in Chachoengsao province on January 25.

Driver Satien said: ‘The elephant was like a forest officer, checking our cargos at a checkpoint.'

The truck eventually passed through as the animal 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.