I live among the creatures of the night / I haven't got the will to try and fight / Against a new tomorrow / So I guess I'll just believe it / That tomorrow never comes

In addition to mechano- and chemosensation, there is evidence for further sensory function of cilia, e.g., for photosensation, osmosensation, thermosensation, and olfactory sensation.

And when health problems struck, as they inevitably would, no matter how attentive the farmer, the tree had to be nursed until it was better. […] Jeez, and I'd thought mothering week-old orphan calves back in Scotland had been a headache! Still, at least a tree couldn't skitter diarrhoea down the front of your jeans, or bellow to be bucket-fed warm milk in the middle of the night, so that was a bonus.

a septilateral figure