The bat-eared fox Otocyon megalotis seems to be expanding its range in southern Africa. The range expansions recorded to date were towards the north in Botswana, northwards and eastwards in Zimbabwe, towards the east in the Transvaal, South Africa, and eastwards and southwards in the southern Cape Province, South Africa. In all these cases no clear obstacles existed that couId have been regarded as a faunal barrier to inhibit emigration from areas in which bat-eared foxes were known to occur.