A wild elephant stole plastic cutlery from the back of a passing pickup truck in Thailand.

The jumbo strolled on one lane of the forest road and approached vehicles he met on the way in Nakhon Ratchasima province on February 3.

Footage shows the animal poking its truck on the cargo bed and taking disposable cups, spoon, and fork.

It littered along the path and eventually let go of the cutlery when he seemed to have realised they weren't edible while the driver quickly climbed down to pick them up.

Onlooker Thongpan Khamphan said: 'The elephant set up a pickup truck checkpoint along the road.'

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.