The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society.

Here, G is for Greyhound – as heraldic symbols of the Tudors' right to rule, and as part of important research into treatments for osteosarcoma in dogs and humans.

Read by Tom Almeroth-Williams

See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/g-is-for-greyhound#sthash.0HXFz3i2.dpuf