Bat-eared Fox in Botswana

Looking for the bat-eared fox in Botswana? Start with Kalahari Desert, where access and habitat make a sighting more likely than a chance roadside glimpse.

Kalahari Desert in Central Botswana is the place to begin. Red sand and sparse scrub, home to meerkat mobs, gemsbok, and brown hyenas at burrow entrances at dawn. Give yourself quiet time at dawn or dusk and keep your distance.

Botswana context: Meerkats on sentinel duty, elephants in the Okavango, and some of Africa's wildest dry-country wildlife.

In Botswana, look especially around short-grass plain, arid savanna, and open scrub. Those settings usually put you closest to where this species is active.