A wild elephant has shocked drivers by teaching his offspring how to pinch food from stopped cars.
Astonishing video footage shows the two huge animals stomping into the road in Chachoengsao, eastern Thailand, on Friday February 21.
They caused traffic to stop as cautious motorists waited anxiously for the pair, thought to be father and son, to pass.
The older male elephant then grabbed several pieces of sugarcane from one of the vehicles.
The video then shows the pair snatching several bags from the back of a silver Toyota Hilux pickup truck, and slinging them across the road.
The markings on the bag read as TRS, a brand of salt.
But the sweet-toothed elephants seemed uninterested in these snacks - and chose instead to munch their looted sugarcane.
The incredible moment was captured by wildlife ranger Amnouy Artchula near the Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary, a national park which is home to hundreds of wild elephants.
Amnouy said that the older male elephant was teaching his younger companion, also a male from the same herd, how to forage for food from passing vehicles.
"The elephants know very well how to stop the passing cars to get food, even if they are not given permission from the drivers," she said.
''In this case, the older elephant was showing the smaller elephant how to get food from cars.
"It was probably his son or another juvenile in the herd.''
The herd of wild elephants is known to roam through forests near the national park, but occasionally emerge on the road when they are looking for food.
"The animals are nice to humans, if humans are nice to them. That is why we ask all drivers not to harm any wildlife, we should live together peacefully," Amnouy continued.
Thailand has between 3,000 and 4,000 elephants.
Around half live in the wild in national parks, like the animal seen in the video, while the rest are domesticated.
