A rhetorical situation involves a speaker (or writer), an audience (or reader), and a message (or text). How would you describe the voices of your chosen texts, and how do these voices help the writers connect with their audiences or persuade their audiences to accept their ideas.
The concepts of both articles revolve around the idea of self-recongnization in manta rays, each article attempts to convey the cognitive powers of these animals. One argues the idea in a moral context of morality and treatment within the human race and preservation in that vein (pathos) while the other constructs an argument in a more scientific context (logos) constructing an argument for preservation in a educational stance.