As we sat beside their burrows in the cold Kalahari mornings, the meerkats sheltered behind us from the keen dawn wind. When no stumps were close by, tamer individuals would sometimes climb up our backs and take their turns as sentinels from our shoulders or heads.
12 states start with a vowel: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Utah. A vowel is any letter that is not a consonant!! A,E,I,O,U are all the vowels sometimes Y is considered a vowel.
Thirty states have a coastline, twenty-three with an ocean coastline and eight with a Great Lakes shoreline; New York is both an ocean state and a Great Lakes state. As of June 2017, the total estimated population of all coastal states was 252,771,773.