This is the amusing moment a wild elephant stopped approaching cars to search of food.

Bee Benjaporn witnessed the hungry jumbo trying to steal snacks from a moving van in the middle of the road in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand.

Footage shows the vehicle cautiously manoeuvreing away from the animal on November 4.

Shortly after, the elephant also stopped another truck for food.

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.