This is the heart-stopping moment a wild elephant stopped an oncoming truck to search it for food.

Footage shows the jumbo walking on the roadside before blocking the vehicle's path in Sa Kaeo, Thailand, on February 1.

The animal then sniffed around the truck with its trunk looking for something to eat before allowing the driver Satien to pass through.

Satien said: ‘Elephants here check the trucks, and most motorists are considerate enough to stop.'

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.