The findings appear in the journal Nature Climate Change. So tuberculosis is an endemic disease in meerkats. It has been present in the population since meerkats have been studied. Maria Paniw is a researcher at the Donana Biological Research Station in Spain. She says that for meerkats living in the Kalahari, TB outbreaks have been on the rise. Coincidentally, so have the local temperatures. So we wanted to know whether there was a link between climate change, which you know, has been increasing temperature extremes, and increases in tuberculosis outbreaks. And how this may affect populations of this social species.