Murray John Littlejohn and Patricia Gordon (Patsy) Littlejohn

Murray Littlejohn in 1967 setting up for a field playback study (photo courtesy of MJL).

Murray Littlejohn (left) in 1953 with Tony Lee in the Stirling Ranges, Western Australia, on a field-trip with Bert Main (photo courtesy of MJL).

Patsy Littlejohn in 1955 with the original portable tape recorder. It was normally operated from a vehicle because it was so heavy (photo courtesy of MJL).

Breakthrough in Texas, 1959: (upper) phonotaxis in female hylids, observed by (left to right) Patsy Littlejohn, Bobby Wilks, Jack Fouquette and George Drewry; (lower) what the observers were observing: female hylid meets loudspeaker (photos courtesy of MJL).

Jasper Loftus-Hills and the Melbourne Zoology Department call discrimination tank, 1970 (photo courtesy of MJL).

Jack Fouquette (left) and Murray Littlejohn, 1999: two champions of the interpretation of character displacement (photo by Patsy Littlejohn, courtesy of MJL).

Murray Littlejohn, 2010.