Male elephant brings traffic to a standstill [PHOTO]

Yesterday (December 7th), a huge elephant brought traffic to a standstill in India.

According to Dailymail, the male elephant obstructed traffic for an hour while eating the road side vegetation.

30 photographer, Chalit Saphaphak, described the experience.

"The elephant was on his own. He was in the road and holding up traffic for an hour. During this time nobody dared to get him to move off the road. The tourists just let him do what he wanted and go by himself. The elephant didn't react to the car or anyone in it. But for other elephants, it does depend on the situation.

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If a tourist hurts them, they are scared or feel threatened an elephant can and will step on the car. Hungry elephants are known to walk on the National Park's road as - even before the tarmac was laid - the route was a popular one for finding food.

Elephants in travel by road, frequently in the winter and sometimes in the rain. Tourists always get scared when they see an elephant on the road but they understand that it can happen as they are in a national park. Some people feel that they are lucky to see something like this because not many people can see elephants like this in the national park."

What would you do if you were stuck in traffic, caused by a huge animal?