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.
How many states are there? The United States is comprised of 50 states plus the District of Columbia. There are also five U.S. territories throughout the world: Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas Islands.