Imagine being woken in your bed in the night by a loud crash and the sound of things being smashed in the kitchen.
When Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon gingerly went to see what was happening, she did not see a jilted lover, or drug-crazed human being but a hungry male elephant who decided to smash into her home in Chalermkiatpattana village, on the edge of Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park.
She discovered an elephant’s head poking through her kitchen wall beside the drying rack. His trunk was rummaging through the kitchen drawers, knocking pans and cooking paraphernalia to the floor. He chewed on a plastic bag as Ratchadawan, unsure what to do, started filming the spectacle on her phone.
“They [elephants]come to visit Chalermkiatpattana village quite often. They always come when there is the local market because they can smell food,” said Itthipon Thaimonkol, the park’s superintendent.
He reports the elephants are sadly short on food and water in their natural environment, so they come into the villages.
So, you can’t really blame this one for searching out a midnight snack.
