Looks like a joke, but who knows, maybe someone likes the very idea of unicorns that much that he/she is trying to find one this way. One man who might have done just that, was the Danish "multi-"scientist", the medic, the researcher of zoological as well as prehistoric objects and finds, Ole Worm (1558-1654).
He built the very first museum in Denmark and just filled it up with exotica, like e.g. old fossils and stuffed animals of all kinds. Much of it exist even today, but, of course, there are no unicorns to be found in his collections as they belong to the world of fantasy and old legends. That truth was established by him when he found out that all those "unicorns"-horn that were found up til then were in reality narwhal-horns.
He was very diligent as well as open to all kinds of interesting subjects that he saw as worthwhile to study. For instance, he found out that lemmings were indeed natural animals of the rodent family. Up till then the general belief had been that they simply generated from air, which may sound crazy now, but wasn't considered so at that time. Also, he was very concerned about the old myth about birds of paradise not having any feet. That weird idea he disproved, but when it comes to the "unicorn-horns" one of the legends stayed on, at least for a while: According to the myth, grounded unicorn-horns were a wonderful medicine for curing victims of poisoning, but when he set out to poison some cats and dogs to disprove this notion, they really seemed to be cured by this remedy. Well, after all, he was a man of this time ....
However, most probably it was this experiment that earned him the interest of H.P. Lovecraft and turned him into one of his notorious characters, namely Olaus Wormius, who was set to translate the so-called "Grimoire the Necronomicon" from Arabic into Latin. This fictive character is rather creepy, which Ole Worm doesn't seem to have been.
His rich collections were famous, and it was obvious that in his opinion nothing - absolutely nothing - was too small or too big to study. However, when he contracted a bladder-infection, neither his studies nor his medical knowledge were enough to save him. His big collection of exotica was sold to the Danish king, Frederik III, and became part of "The Royal Kunstkammer".
This painting from 1647 of the Worm family depicts Ole, and, as he married three times, all of these wives as well as their many children and other relatives. Also, there has been made room for Jesus and the four apostles.
https://www.strangescience.net/oleworm.htm
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