A run­away man­a­tee named Tico, which had giv­en in­ter­na­tion­al res­cue teams the slip for two months, has been caught af­ter a fran­tic in­ter­na­tion­al search, ac­cord­ing to the BBC.

In late Au­gust, Tico's trans­mit­ter came close enough to the sur­face to sig­nal that it was off the coast of To­ba­go.

Ac­cord­ing to the BBC ex­perts had feared for the sev­en-year-old's safe­ty af­ter he em­barked on an un­usu­al jour­ney tak­ing him more than 4,000 km from the Brazil­ian wa­ters where he had been re­leased in­to the wild.

"An op­er­a­tion that spanned mul­ti­ple coun­tries and sent res­cuers scam­per­ing on planes, boats and cars in a race against time to save Tico's life had a hap­py end­ing on Mon­day when he was fi­nal­ly res­cued off Venezuela's La Blan­quil­la is­land," the re­port stat­ed.

It was vet­eri­nar­i­ans from Venezuela's en­vi­ron­ment min­istry who fi­nal­ly man­aged to track the man­a­tee through GPS and catch up with him.

"It is not the first time Tico has been res­cued. In Oc­to­ber 2014, when he was a new-born, he was found strand­ed on Pra­ia das Ag­ul­has, in north-east­ern Brazil, and tak­en in by Brazil­ian con­ser­va­tion NGO, Aqua­sis," it stat­ed..