Bengal tigers hunt Bengal tigers in order to protect their territory and find food. Hunting is typically done at night when it is cooler and Bengal tigers suck up water through their stomachs and then can go for weeks without drinking again. Bengal Tigers are endangered because they have been reduced in number due to diseases, hunting, cattle grazing, habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching of adults and cubs, the punitive killing of "people-tigers." Especially outside protected areas such as national parks where humans enter illegally with firearms or traps; It's rare that we even hear about any saved Bengal Tigers.