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[Harry Potter] Why keep certain creatures a secret from the non-magical population?

Why do wizards keep the existence of unicorns, dragons, hippogriffs, etc. a secret from the muggle population?   Why aren't they just normal animals to humans?
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Many of these animals have magical properties (unicorn blood's properties being the most obvious, but also dragon's breath, the fact that hippogriffs probably fly at least partially by magic since their actual proportions are impossible, etc.) and if muggles were to witness these magical properties, they would try to analyze them/study them, and might either stumble across magic, or try to abuse their observations of it for personal gain (imagine what would happen if muggles tried hunting unicorns for sport to drink their blood).