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CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Kenny Tharp was hunting deer near the Mississippi River last season when he spotted something curled beneath a pine tree that he just couldn't believe: the body of a 98-pound cougar.
Tharp's discovery was only the second confirmed cougar sighting in more than a century in Illinois, and it came within five years of the first.
Reports of cougars, sometimes called mountain lions, have increased in the Midwest in recent years, and a nationwide effort is scratching for evidence of more in middle America, where the big cats thrived generations ago.
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