A hungry wild elephant with a jumbo appetite raided a pickup truck and searched it for food.

Footage shows the ravenous bull rummaging through the cargo on the back of the car in Chachoengsao province, Thailand on March 1.

But the containers were secured with a rope, so he had difficulty plucking them out and snaring an ill-gotten lunch.

The animal caused a traffic jam and finally let go of the pickup when a bigger truck carrying sugar canes passed by.

Elephants are known for their voracious appetite. The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) found need to eat up to 150kg of food per day - the equivalent of 375 tins of baked beans

Conservationists in Thailand say that wild elephants - up to 3,500 of them - have even developed a taste for human food and prefer to rummage through homes and vehicles for snacks, instead of the bland leaves they find in the forest.