Elephants in Thailand are endangered and heavily protected. Humans are one of the biggest predators to elephants. Farms and other developments infrastructure like roads and cities operate in areas that used to be wild jungles filled with enough food for the elephants to easily live off. Farmers and elephants have a long-standing argument because of this. Elephants want the food that farmers grow and farmers do everything they can to keep the elephants out, including using electric fences.
I once watched a National Geographic documentary, The Secrets of Elephants, about a specific time when elephants worked as a team to go to a farm at night, walking in a way where their steps made no sound, using tools to break the electric fence and attempting to eat the food the farmers were growing. They are seriously so smart and will do anything for food!
